Anatomy of Murder: Mystery Detective Crime Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780879728410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Carl Darryl Malmgren

Opis

Anatomy of Murder identifies and explores three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detection mystery, detective, and crime fiction. Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation. Covering the forms of murder fiction, the book examines texts by Doyle, Christie, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Highsmith, Jim Thompson, Thomas Harris, and others."