The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman. [electronic resource]
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The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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English
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1 online resource (xvii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- The short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Schütt -- The golden age / Stephen Knight...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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England
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2003.
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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thrill...
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The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to literature
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English
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74VKVw67ENjA
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0-511-99938-0
1-107-48558-4
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823/.087209
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991023962494502626
