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The Crime Novel

Author : Anthony Channell Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292711360
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Crime Novel written by Anthony Channell Hilfer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Crime Fiction

Author : John Scaggs
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415318242
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction written by John Scaggs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.

Anatomy of Murder

Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728427
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Murder written by Carl Darryl Malmgren and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation (of behavior and signs). Built on a faith in foundations, it insists upon the solidity of social life, the validity of social conventions, and the sanctity of signs. Mystery assures us that motives exist for both words and deeds.".

The Crime Novel

Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477300066
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Crime Novel written by Tony Hilfer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Eight Detectives

Author : Alex Pavesi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405944986
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Eight Detectives written by Alex Pavesi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BIGGEST MYSTERY CAN BE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . DISCOVER THE YEAR'S MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL 'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over' A. J. FINN 'An elegantly structured, intellectually challenging and completely unique thriller that grips like a vice' SOPHIE HANNAH _______ All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, hiding their secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared. Julia Hart has finally tracked him down. She wants to know what happened to him. But she's about to discover that a good mystery can be murder to solve . . . _______ 'One of the most creative detective novels of the year . . . If not of all time' Samantha Downing 'Intelligent and inventive . . . It's the most fun I've had in ages' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!' Sarah Pinborough **Winner of the Capital Crimes Reader Award for Debut Book of the Year** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GLASS BELL AWARD AND THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

The Last Girl

Author : Jane Casey
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 125003034X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Last Girl written by Jane Casey and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maeve Kerrigan [is] a fascinating and plausible character...What she has is persistence, integrity and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a reader's affections."—The Irish Independent (UK) Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn't provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin daughters...and it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home. When Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, the two survivors—Philip and his second favorite daughter, Lydia—both claim to have seen nothing, but it's clear right away that this is an unhappy family accustomed to keeping secrets. Maeve soon finds herself entangled in a case with a thousand leads that all seem to point nowhere, and it doesn't help that her boss, whom she trusts more than almost anyone, is starting to make decisions that Maeve finds questionable at best. In The Last Girl, Jane Casey once again demonstrates her ability to write vivid, three-dimensional characters and spin a gripping, unpredictable mystery.

The Violated

Author : Bill Pronzini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632866625
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Violated written by Bill Pronzini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series. Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field--and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display. The Violated is no exception. In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has no easy solution. Pronzini cleverly unfolds the case through alternating perspectives--Martin Torrey's wife, caught between her grief and the fear her husband was guilty; the outraged husbands of the women violated; the enterprising editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned most with his own ratings; the detectives, often spinning in circles--until a surprising break leads to a completely unexpected conclusion. The Violated is Bill Pronzini at the height of his storytelling powers.

The Red Road

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316236527
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Red Road written by Denise Mina and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions. Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman who's spying on the people who put her in jail, Morrow has her hands full. And that's before she even gets to her family issues. The Red Road is a thrilling new novel from a masterful writer, proving once again that "If you don't love Denise Mina, you don't love crime fiction." (Val McDermid)

Blaze Me a Sun

Author : Christoffer Carlsson
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0593449363
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Blaze Me a Sun written by Christoffer Carlsson and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s Best Crime Novels of the Year • A Good Morning America Buzz Pick #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated—a “thrilling and profoundly poignant” (Angie Kim) novel by one of the country’s top criminologists, hailed as “the finest crime writer we have in Sweden” (David Lagercrantz, author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web and other novels in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series) “Christoffer Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western.”—Anthony Marra, author of Mercury Pictures Presents and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena A CRIMEREADS AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have attacked his first victim. I’m going to do it again, he says before the line cuts off. By the time police officer Sven Jörgensson reaches the crime scene, the woman is taking her last breath. For Sven, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection? As Sven becomes obsessed with the case, two more fall victim. For years, Sven remains haunted by the murders he cannot solve, fearing the killer will strike again. Having failed to catch him, Sven retires from the police, passing his obsession to his son, who has joined the force to be closer to his father. Decades later, the case unexpectedly resurfaces when a novelist returns home to Halland amid a failed marriage and a sputtering career. The writer befriends the retired police officer, who helps the novelist—our narrator—unspool the many strands of this engrossing tale about a community confronting its shames and legacies. A #1 bestseller in Sweden, Blaze Me a Sun marks the American debut of the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year award, the top prize for Swedish crime writers whose past winners include Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell.

The Grab

Author : Gordon Landsborough
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781434445162
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Grab written by Gordon Landsborough and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab a beautiful girl, yank her out of her Istanbul hotel bed, and brazenly carry her into the night, clad only in pajamas. In 1953 Turkey, you can get away with that, if you have the right connections--unless professional Trouble-Buster Joe P. Heggy just happens to be looking on--and then you're set for trouble. Heggy decides to investigate, only to encounter flat-faced Turkish thugs who want to eliminate him in any way possible. But the American can hold his own, aided by a bunch of wise-cracking, cynical construction workers trying to do their jobs in the face of sabotage and political intrigue. And when Heggy not only finds the girl, but kidnaps her back himself, things start getting very tense indeed... A real corker of a thriller, the first of a series of hardboiled crime novels yanked screaming from the pages of the 1950s pulp paperbacks!

The Man in the Woods

Author : Ilaria Tuti
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474609600
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Woods written by Ilaria Tuti and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH ONE OF M. W. CRAVEN'S BOOKS OF 2019 A ruthless killer is spreading panic in a quiet village in the Italian Alps. Police Inspector Teresa Battaglia is the only one who can stop them. But how can you catch a monster when you're slowly losing your mind? PREPARE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH TERESA BATTAGLIA, A POLICE INSPECTOR LIKE NO OTHER: 'Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a criminal profile expert, is in her sixties, overweight, lonely, diabetic, full of the ailments of ageing - and delightful. It's rare that a character like Teresa Battaglia enters crime fiction for the first time, and with such gripping impact' Marcel Berlins, The Times (Crime Book of the Month) 'Teresa Battaglia is set to give tyneside's Vera a run for her money' Lancashire Post 'Teresa Battaglia is one of the most interesting detectives to emerge in recent years' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show 'I was rooting for Teresa Battaglia from the start' Sarah Ward, author of In Bitter Chill 'I totally fell for the tough-but-vulnerable Teresa Battaglia' Roz Watkins, author of The Devil's Dice 'A brilliant protagonist, an eerie setting and a community hiding dark secrets' Dead Good (Debut crime novels to watch out for in 2019)

BLOOD ON ORCHARD STREET

Author : CHARLES MORST
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 149070776X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book BLOOD ON ORCHARD STREET written by CHARLES MORST and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read in to the world of crime like you never seen before Mike Hallman is a veteran of the police force for the last twenty two years, and had been assigned to a case that may alter the way he views crime. The way that he solve them, and the idea of murder. As him and his loyal partner; Detective Brandon Small gives their effort to cracking what might be the most disturbing case in his career. The clock ticks as the suspect of a gruesome murder eluded police officers and has Hallman on a chase that will surely leave him speechless. As a murder of a young woman unfold in a little town all is not what you think? What secrets lies on Orchard Street? In this fiction based crime novel; Author Charles Morst gives you crime to really shoot your brains out for. This twisted, thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more.

The Long Drop

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031638058X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Long Drop written by Denise Mina and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of the Year, this standalone psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes the dark hearts of the guilty . . . and the innocent. William Watt's wife, daughter, and sister-in-law are dead, slaughtered in their own home in a brutal crime that scandalized Glasgow. Despite an ironclad alibi, police zero in on Watt as the primary suspect, but he maintains his innocence. Distraught and desperate to clear his name, Watt puts out a bounty for information that will lead him to the real killer. Peter Manuel claims he knows the truth that will set Watt free and has information that only the killer would know. It won't come cheap. Manuel is an infamous career criminal, a degenerate liar who can't be trusted and will say, or do, anything to make a buck. But Manuel has something that Watt wants, which makes him the perfect target for Manuel's consummate con. Watt agrees to sit down with Manuel and before they know it, one drink has turned into an epic, forgotten night of carousing across the city's bars and clubs that exposes the thin line between a good yarn and the truth. The next time the unlikely pair meets is across the witness stand in court -- where Manuel is on trial for the murder of Watt's family. Manuel calls Watt to the stand to testify about the long, shady night they shared together. And the shocking testimony that Manuel coaxes out of Watt threatens to expose the dark hearts of the guilty...and the innocent. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an explosive, unsettling novel about guilt, innocence and the power of a good story to hide the difference.

The Last Confession

Author : Solomon Jones
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429940412
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Last Confession written by Solomon Jones and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960's South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it never stopped the nightmares. The screams in the sanctuary still haunt him, the sound of the gunshots still torment him, and the truth of the Confessional Murders still speaks to him, if only in his dreams. Now, on the eve of Coletti's retirement, the priest whom he arrested for the decade-old crime is about to be put to death, and in one final nightmare, Coletti clearly sees the truth. The priest is innocent, and it all comes to light when the real killer reemerges and embarks on a killing spree that turns Philadelphia upside down. To set things right and stop the execution of an innocent man, Coletti must catch a mysterious killer who now calls himself the Angel of Death. As the chase winds through art galleries and gritty streets, ancient prophecies and holy ground, the game intensifies, cultures collide, and Philly's best detective is forced to face his nightmarish past—a past that could very well destroy him.

One Remained Seated: A Classic Crime Novel

Author : John Russell Fearn
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434446913
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book One Remained Seated: A Classic Crime Novel written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Black, M.A., Principal of Roseway College for Young Ladies, does not expect to come face to face with murder in her favorite cinema, when a stranger seated in Number 11 on Row A is found to be dead--shot through the head with a copper bullet! The baffling crime enables her to take on her role of detective and become, once again, Black Maria--the tireless crime solver. Determined to get to the root of the mystery, she works side by side with the stolid Inspector Morgan, local police chief. Together they follow a tangled trail that takes them behind the scenes of a cinema, examining the lives of hardworking folk who strive to maintain the entertainment industry--and eventually leads them into the recesses of a ruthless killer’s dark mind. Another riveting classic British mystery torn from the pages of the pulps. Black Maria, Book Three.

The Word Is Murder

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062676814
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Word Is Murder written by Anthony Horowitz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes. One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own. A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

A March from Innocence

Author : Tom Fowler
Publisher : Widening Gyre Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A March from Innocence written by Tom Fowler and published by Widening Gyre Media. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled girl has disappeared. Finding her may cost him his life. When you’re a sought-after PI like C.T. Ferguson, there’s no such thing as a day off. So his romantic Hawaiian getaway is interrupted when a frantic woman calls, desperate to locate her missing niece. But when he learns of the girl’s involvement with drugs and escort work, he fears his investigation may already be over. Following the clues from the pimp-ridden neighborhoods of Baltimore to rural Maryland, C.T. uncovers a sordid trail of exploitation and corruption. And when the justice system ignores a twisted cabal preying on young girls, he vows to bust it open no matter the cost. Can the determined P.I. take down a gang of monstrous criminals before he’s eliminated? A March from Innocence is the sixth standalone novel in the gripping C.T. Ferguson mystery series. If you like seedy suspects, courageous private eyes, and long-shot cases, then you’ll love Tom Fowler’s gritty noir. Keywords: private investigator, private detective, crime thriller, crime fiction, hard-boiled, noir, mystery, mystery series, murder mystery