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Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection From Sleuths to Superheroes
Mitzi M. Brunsdale
ISBN: 0-313-34530-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34530-2
700 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/2010
List Price: $175.00 (UK Sterling Price: £120.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 3/30/2010)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Series Title: Greenwood Icons
Description: Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.

Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practictioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Title Features:
Parallel chronologies placing each of the book's 24 subjects in their historical/cultural context

Individual selected bibliographies for each of the 24 figures plus a selected general bibliography of critical sources treating the genre

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