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100 British Crime Writers

Author : Esme Miskimmin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 113731902X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book 100 British Crime Writers written by Esme Miskimmin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

100 American Crime Writers

Author : S. Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031662
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book 100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

100 Must-read Crime Novels

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408103702
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 100 Must-read Crime Novels written by Nick Rennison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the some of the finest crime novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert on the world of crime. The book also allows you to browse by theme, includes 'a reader's fast-guide to the world of crime fiction' as well listing the top 10 crime characters and their creators, award winners and book club recommendations.

Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152759159X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction by : Charlotte Beyer

Download or read book Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction written by Charlotte Beyer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. Through an in-depth critical and contextual analysis of selected contemporary British crime fiction novels from the 1990s to 2018, this distinctive book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender by John Harvey, Stella Duffy, M.Y. Alam, and Dorothy Koomson. It argues that contemporary British crime fiction is a field of contestation where urgent cultural and social questions are debated and the politics of representation explored. A significant resource which will be valuable to researchers and scholars of the crime genre, as well as British literature, this book offers timely critical engagement with intersectionality and decolonisation and their representation in contemporary British crime fiction.

Mystery Voices

Author : Dale Salwak
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0893702781
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Voices written by Dale Salwak and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of interviews with authors such as P.D. James and Julian Symons.

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781464207235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books written by Martin Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behavior, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past, and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, serves as a companion to the British Library's internationally acclaimed series of Crime Classics. Long-forgotten stories republished in the series have won a devoted new readership, with several titles entering the bestseller charts and sales outstripping those of highly acclaimed contemporary thrillers.

A Companion to Crime Fiction

Author : Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119675774
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Crime Fiction in the City

Author : Lucy Andrew
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160373
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction in the City written by Lucy Andrew and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of the urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital city, a repository of authority, national identity and culture, within crime fiction. This wide-ranging collection looks at capital cities across Europe, from the more traditional centres of power - Paris, Rome and London - to Europe's most northern capital, Stockholm, and also considers the newly devolved capitals, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cardiff. The texts under consideration span the nineteenth-century city mysteries to contemporary populist crime fiction. The collection opens with a reflective essay by Ian Rankin and aims to inaugurate a dialogue between Anglophone and European crime writing; to explore the marginalised works of Irish and Welsh writers alongside established European crime writers and to interrogate the relationship between fact and fiction, creativity and criticism, within the crime genre.

The Man in the Queue

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 178227961X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Queue written by Josephine Tey and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever mystery classic from one of Britain's greatest and most original crime writers In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. There is nothing in the man's clothes or wallet to identify him, and nothing in his pockets but a revolver... Who is he and who killed him before melting away unseen into the night? Inspector Alan Grant investigates, and soon is engaged in a breathless manhunt that will lead him from London all the way to the Scottish highlands and back, before the mystery is finally resolved in a way that not even he can anticipate.

British Crime Writing: A-H

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846450303
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book British Crime Writing: A-H written by Barry Forshaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a substantial, wide-ranging A-Z reference of British crime writing - including crime fiction, true and historical crime. From Sherlock Holmes to Inspector Morse, via Father Brown, Miss Marple and the Sweeney, British crime writing has thrilled the world. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive, in-depth A-Z encyclopedia to cover the astonishing riches of the whole tradition. Classic authors of the Golden Age of British Crime, such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, rub shoulders with hot new writers like Martina Cole and Christopher Brookmyre, and established stars mingle with the most promising tyros. The great detectives who solve the elegant riddles of country house murders feature alongside the rawest recruits on the mean streets of Edinburgh, gangland London - and Aberystwyth.In addition, there are articles on all sub-genres of British crime writing - thrillers, espionage, historical crime, clerical crime, crime in academe, noir (and tart noir), literary crime and true crime. Key British film and TV film scripts are also included, and entries on specific subjects are complemented by essays on key themes such as 'Crime Fiction and Sexuality' and 'Social Comment in Crime Fiction'. As an extra treat, many of the articles are written by the crime writers themselves, such as Val McDermid, Lauren Henderson and Laura Wilson. This title exerts strong popular appeal to a general readership; it uniquely combines both historical and fictional crime; and is the most substantial reference resource on the subject

The Millennial Detective

Author : Malcah Effron
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486821
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Millennial Detective written by Malcah Effron and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship.

Brit Noir

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843446413
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Brit Noir written by Barry Forshaw and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena, as demonstrated in such books as British Crime Writing, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction and British Crime Film. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to the British Isles to produce the ultimate reader's guide to modern British crime fiction (taking in the best from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland). The word 'Noir' is used in its loosest sense as every major living British and Irish writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted for the reader. Forshaw's personal acquaintance with writers, editors and publishers is unparalleled, so Brit Noir features interviews with (and quotations from) the writers, editors and publishers themselves. The characteristics of the very different writing from London, the regions, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are examined and celebrated. 'Unsurprisingly Barry Forshaw's Brit Noir is a wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf' - Shots Magazine 'A must-have for crime fans: for reminding yourself about old favourites, for finding new authors, and for that "What shall we watch?" moment' - Mystery People Look out for the other books in Barry Forshaw's Noir series, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, American Noir and Historical Noir, and for his latest book, Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide.

Crime & Mystery

Author : Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crime & Mystery written by Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.R.F Keating, author of The Perfect Murder and mystery reviewer for teh Times of London, offers a concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever written. From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers. "Something to offer almost everyone. If you are only just embarking on a life of crime fiction...a reliable guide." -The New York Times "Remarkably balanced and highly entertaining." -Library Journal "Keating, himself a mystery writer of note, has compiled a truly standout survey...This is a gold mine of lively writing, sensible insights and easy-going erudition." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Ideal browsing fare." -Booklist

Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media

Author : Maria Mellins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030837580
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media written by Maria Mellins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects. From a range of contributors, it touches on a wide variety of topics overall and illustrates how examining true crime across the changing popular media landscape can contribute to important debates in contemporary culture and society. It encourages a critical eye towards understanding the harmful stereotypes, myths and misinformation that popular media can bring. Arranged into four sections, including: true crime trials, representations of victims, the consumption of serial killer narratives, and true crime spaces, each chapter explores different themes and topics across traditional and newer media. These topics include: emotion and appeals for justice in Making a Murderer, #MeToo and misogyny in crime narratives, true crime journalism being exploitative, the ethics of consuming dark tourism and the appetite for true crime, live streamed murder, and the ways in which true murder accounts might lend insight into other types of crime such as domestic violence and stalking. This book stimulates discussion on undergraduate courses in crime, media and culture as well as in film and media studies, and it also speaks to those with a general interest in true crime.

Cut Me In

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Titan Books
ISBN 13 : 1783293624
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Cut Me In written by Ed McBain and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert, not the men he did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency - me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. The office safe was open, and a contract worth millions was missing...

British Crime Writing

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9781846450228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book British Crime Writing written by Barry Forshaw and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference of British crime writing - including crime fiction, true and historical crime. It features classic authors of the Golden Age of British Crime, such as Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, and writers like Martina Cole and Christopher Brookmyre.

DEAD MEN'S MONEY (Murder Mystery Classic)

Author : J. S. Fletcher
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book DEAD MEN'S MONEY (Murder Mystery Classic) written by J. S. Fletcher and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old seafaring stranger with a heavy, locked op chest turns up from nowhere seeking lodgings with Hugh Moneylaws and his mother in Berwick-upon-Tweed, a rural English town bordering Scotland. One night he sends Hugh, a young solicitor's clerk, to meet a man instead of him, as he is too ill, but when Hugh arrives at the destination, he finds a man murdered. Hugh's law firm gets involved to resolve the mystery. Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author and journalist, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. After his journalist career Fletcher first started writing poems, then historical fiction, and finally moved on to write detective mysteries.