The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Download or Read eBook The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction PDF written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Martin Priestman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2003-11-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521008719 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521008716 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by : Martin Priestman
Book excerpt: This Companion 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 thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
