The Julian Symons Omnibus: The Man who Killed Himself
Author : Julian Symons
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Julian Symons
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : John J. Walsdorf
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
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Author : Anthony Channell Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292711360
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved. These and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in The Crime Novel, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own. Hilfer provides in-depth analyses of novels by Georges Simenon, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson. He also treats such British novelists as Patrick Hamilton, Shelley Smith, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, as well as the American novelists Cornell Woolrich, John Franklin Bardin, James M. Cain, and Fredric Brown. In addition, he defines the distinctions between the American crime novel and the British, showing how their differences correspond to differences in American and British detective fiction. This well-written study will appeal to a general audience, as well as teachers and students of detective and mystery fiction. For anyone interested in the genre, it offers valuable suggestions of "what to read next."
Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1477300066
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved. These and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in The Crime Novel, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own. Hilfer provides in-depth analyses of novels by Georges Simenon, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson. He also treats such British novelists as Patrick Hamilton, Shelley Smith, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, as well as the American novelists Cornell Woolrich, John Franklin Bardin, James M. Cain, and Fredric Brown. In addition, he defines the distinctions between the American crime novel and the British, showing how their differences correspond to differences in American and British detective fiction. This well-written study will appeal to a general audience, as well as teachers and students of detective and mystery fiction. For anyone interested in the genre, it offers valuable suggestions of "what to read next."
Author : Julian Symons
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
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Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195182146
"Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 1972-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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Author : Julian Symons (Schriftsteller, Grossbritannien)
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Fiona Kelleghan
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
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Essays taken from Salem Press's Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction, published in 1988.