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Raymond Chandler

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784782173
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Raymond Chandler written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler’s invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.

The Manual of Detection

Author : Jedediah Berry
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202117
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Manual of Detection written by Jedediah Berry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tightly plotted debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's dreams.

Detecting the Nation

Author : Caroline Reitz
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209823
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Detecting the Nation written by Caroline Reitz and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Detecting the Nation, Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather, Reitz argues, nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom to that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin, Dickens, Collins, and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India, narratives about Thuggee, and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project, such as political tracts and adventure stories, were inextricably interrelated during this time.

Detection by Gaslight

Author : Douglas G. Greene
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486114120
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Detection by Gaslight written by Douglas G. Greene and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473527066
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Fine Art of Invisible Detection written by Robert Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller 'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, but also beautifully written ... I loved it' Mel Giedroyc 'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail -------------- An unlikely heroine. An even more unlikely detective. And a cold case that's resurfacing with deadly consequences. Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case which turns out to be dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London. Following the only lead she has, Wada quickly realises that being a detective isn't as easy as the television makes out. And that there's a reason why secrets stay buried for a long time. Because people want them to stay secret. And they're prepared to do very bad things to keep them that way... The new novel from Robert Goddard, THE FINE ART OF UNCANNY PREDICTION, is available for pre-order now. -------------------- What readers are saying: ***** 'Guaranteed and satisfying escapism' ***** 'Twists and turns right up to the last page' ***** 'Edge-of-the-seat stuff' ***** 'Fresh and inventive' ***** 'The master of twists and suspense ... sublime' ***** 'Scintillating and wickedly twisty'

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307907155
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 13 Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a repeated dream: a vision of a tall, strange man who waits for her beneath an acacia tree. Odd as this is, she’s far too busy to worry about it. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And, most shockingly, Mma Potokwane, defender of Botswana’s weak and downtrodden, has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position? As wealthy and powerful influences at the orphan farm become allied against their friend, help arrives from an unexpected visitor: the tall stranger from Mma Ramotswe’s dreams, who turns out to be none other than the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual, The Principles of Private Detection. Together, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and their teacher-turned-colleague help right this injustice and in the process discover something new about being a good detective. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Alexander McCall Smith's The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon.

Detecting Texts

Author : Patricia Merivale
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205456
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Detecting Texts written by Patricia Merivale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

The Figure of the Detective

Author : Charles Brownson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477695
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Detective written by Charles Brownson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested.

The Floating Admiral

Author : The Detection Club
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504058291
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Floating Admiral written by The Detection Club and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian). Originally published in 1931, The Floating Admiral is a classic literary collaboration by members of the Detection Club, in which each chapter is written by a different mystery author, with G. K. Chesterton adding a prologue after the novel was completed. Each writer was tasked with building on what the previous writer created, without ignoring or avoiding whatever plot points had come before. Although Anthony Berkeley wrote the definitive conclusion to the mystery in his final chapter, the writers all provided their own individual solutions, each in a sealed envelope, which appear in the appendix. In the words of Dorothy L. Sayers in her introduction, the spirit of the project was that of a “detection game,” for the amusement of the authors—and their readers. In the sleepy English seaside village of Whynmouth, an old sailor discovers a corpse floating serenely in a rowboat owned by the local vicar. The victim has been stabbed in the chest. It falls to Inspector Rudge to solve this most baffling mystery, in which not only the identity of the killer but the identity of the victim is called into question. The Floating Admiral includes contributions by Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, G. D. H. and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane, and Anthony Berkeley. “I was . . . hugely entertained by the virtuoso displays of mental gymnastics, which kept me guessing all the way.” —The Guardian

Crime & Detection

Author : Brian Lane
Publisher : DK Children
ISBN 13 : 9780756613860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Crime & Detection written by Brian Lane and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many different methods used to solves crimes, covering such topics as criminal, detectives, and forensics.

The Reader and the Detective Story

Author : George N. Dove
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727321
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Reader and the Detective Story written by George N. Dove and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As every detective novel addict knows, there's no greater high than figuring out "whodunit" before the final revelation, resulting in the kind of intellectual satisfaction a shot of bourbon can never offer. Dove takes this reader/writer play to a new level by critically assessing the genre through the principles of Reader Response Theory, outlining the detective story as a special case of reading governed by rules and a specialized formula that traces its genealogy back to Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.".

Detection Unlimited

Author : Georgette Heyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553110401
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Detection Unlimited written by Georgette Heyer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century of the Detective

Author : Jürgen Thorwald
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century of the Detective written by Jürgen Thorwald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1965 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzett, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics.

Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club

Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008380147
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club written by Martin Edwards and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.

The Arresting Eye

Author : Jinny Huh
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937035
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Arresting Eye written by Jinny Huh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans not only in detective fiction (from Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan to the works of Pauline Hopkins) but also in narratives centered on detection itself (such as Winnifred Eaton’s rhetoric of undetection in her Japanese romances). In explicating the literary depictions of race-detection anxiety, Huh demonstrates how cultural, legal, and scientific discourses across diverse racial groups were also struggling with demands for racial decipherability. Anxieties of detection and undetection, she concludes, are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on each other's construction and formation in American history and culture.

Alice Jones: The Impossible Clue

Author : Sarah Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910002865
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Alice Jones: The Impossible Clue written by Sarah Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maths-whizz Alice has already solved a mystery or two. Persuaded by wannabe sidekick Sammy to investigate a scientist's disappearance, she's soon entangled in her trickiest case yet. Dr Learner is reputed to have invented an invisibility suit, but is whacky science really to blame for his vanishing? With the unlikely help of erstwhile nemesis Kevin, Alice solves the puzzle - only to face another. Should she reveal the truth, or protect her most devoted friend?