Investigating Evil: Heroic Sleuths and Their Exceptional Cases

ISBN-13: 9781636671185 / Angielski

Hugo G. Walter

Opis

This book is a collection of essays about heroic, intelligent, perceptive, and resourceful private citizens with exceptional investigative capacities and their exemplary and important contributions to noteworthy criminal cases which are discussed in literary masterpieces by Agatha Christie and Dorothy Bowers.

Recenzje

"Something between Edgar Allan Poe's detective prodigy of the preternatural and Jane Austen's 'neighborhood of voluntary spies,' Christie's and Bowers's amateur sleuths have a nose for foul play and an unflinching sense of civic duty and moral courage. A welcome intervention in a critically neglected genre, Hugo Walter's timely study offers rare insight into the history, influence, and mechanics of the modern 'whodunit?'. While focused on Christie and Bowers unassuming-but-intrepid protagonists, this engaging work offers a much broader sociology of citizen detectives and the allure of their uncanny capacity to inhabit diabolical genius and their moral obligation to even the score." Gregory S. Jackson, Rutgers University

O autorze

Hugo G. Walter has a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Old Dominion University, a Ph.D. in literature from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in humanities from Drew University. Dr. Walter teaches literature and humanities courses in the Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University. Two of his most recent publications are Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature (Lang, 2012) and Devoted to the Truth: Four Brilliant Investigators (Lang, 2022).