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Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781554884469 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes - the characters and themes, the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini connection, radio actors and cartoonists, the fans who cling to Holmes's reality and the professors who tease out motifs from the fifty-six short stories and four novels. The first edition of Sherlock Holmes Handbook appeared in 1993. This edition catches up on new films, new books (a few with a hint of the supernatural) and the advent of the Internet, which has spread Holmes's fame and... Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes - the characters and themes, the publishers a... |
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Crime Scene Spain: Essays on Post-Franco Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9780786441570 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction. This work examines regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's El blues de la semana mas negra.
Examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction. This work examines regional and cul...
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Strange Cases: A Selective Guide to Speculative Mystery Fiction
ISBN: 9781591584216 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pleasures of mystery novels and speculative fiction double when the two genres meet in a single book. Placing a compelling mystery story within a paranormal context adds even more mystery to the story. While these books are popular with readers, locating them can be a challenge. They do not fit into any single category, so they get scattered through collections and store shelves, with some series shelved in science fiction, some in horror, and some in mystery. Organized alphabetically by author name and series title, this detailed guide offers readers a one-stop reference and... The pleasures of mystery novels and speculative fiction double when the two genres meet in a single book. Placing a compelling mystery story within... |
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Deciphering The Lost Symbol: Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9781569757734 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DISCOVER THE SECRETIVE BROTHERHOOD BEHIND DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOL
Freemason influence on the founding of Washington, D.C., is evident throughout the city's buildings, statues and monuments--but it's written in coded symbols that few people understand. Dan Brown's new thriller sends symbologist detective Robert Langdon through the capital to unravel its Masonic secrets. Now in Deciphering The Lost Symbol, Freemason expert Christopher L. Hodapp compares each clue and plot twist in Brown's story to the true facts. -Discover the meaning of "The... DISCOVER THE SECRETIVE BROTHERHOOD BEHIND DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOL
Freemason influence on the founding of Washingt... |
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Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity
ISBN: 9780230580732 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously:... |
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Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930
ISBN: 9780786448951 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detective fiction is one of the America's most popular and enduring literary genres. This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett, three writers who, during the Roaring Twenties, transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fiction in startling and rejuvenating directions. Topics covered include the highbrow detective, the ethnic detective, the...
Detective fiction is one of the America's most popular and enduring literary genres. This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. ...
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The Police Procedural
ISBN: 9780879721886 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the police procedural story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular poli...
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The Anthony Boucher Chronicles: Reviews and Commentary 1942-1947
ISBN: 9781605430027 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE ANTHONY BOUCHER CHRONICLES was edited by Francis M. Nevins from all of the monthly and weekly reviews and commentary columns that Boucher published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 1942 - 1947. Over 400 pages, it includes an index to all of the hundreds of great old mystery writers mentioned in the reviews.
THE ANTHONY BOUCHER CHRONICLES was edited by Francis M. Nevins from all of the monthly and weekly reviews and commentary columns that Boucher publishe...
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A Shot Rang Out
ISBN: 9781605431680 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of mystery criticism and essays from the reviewer of books for Ellery Queen Magazine. Jon Breen is the worthy successor of Anthony Boucher and his hundreds of reviews of books and authors is a must-have for all serious mystery fans. A Ramble House book
A collection of mystery criticism and essays from the reviewer of books for Ellery Queen Magazine. Jon Breen is the worthy successor of Anthony Bouche...
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The Boy Detectives: Essays on the Hardy Boys and Others
ISBN: 9780786460335 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure who embodies all the potential wit, drive and zest of girlhood. Her male counterpart, however, has received much less critical attention despite his popularity in the wider culture. This collection of twelve essays examines the boy detective and his genre from a wide variety of critical perspectives and address issues involving these young characters who stand on the cusp of manhood and boyhood, heirs to the patriarchy yet still concerned with first crushes and soda shop romances. Series explored include the Hardy Boys,...
Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure who embodies all the potential wit, drive and zest of girlhood. Her male cou...
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Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
ISBN: 9780826432353 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American hard-boiled crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema. Leading international scholars from the fields of literary and cultural studies analyze a range of literature and film, from neglected examples of film noir and true crime, crime fiction by female African American writers, to reality TV, recent films such as Elephant, Collateral and The Departed, and contemporary fiction by J. G. Ballard, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Margaret Atwood. They offer...
By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American hard-boiled crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures breathes...
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Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives
ISBN: 9781847063076 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of cultural texts and political rhetoric, about the connection between the popular-cultural depiction of crime and criminality and how we come to understand human behaviour and culpability; most of all, it is a detailed...
Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But ...
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Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780786447725 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Chandler was a pioneer of what came to be known as hard-boiled mystery-detective fiction. His Philip Marlowe is America's tough, realistic equivalent to Victorian England's more refined Sherlock Holmes. This reference work includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for Chandler's individual novels and short stories, his characters, family members, and professional acquaintances. Entries for fiction provide plot synopses, identification of characters, and brief critical commentaries. Longer entries cite numerous critical works for further reading.
Raymond Chandler was a pioneer of what came to be known as hard-boiled mystery-detective fiction. His Philip Marlowe is America's tough, realistic equ...
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
ISBN: 9780061988370 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories. Not only will Christie's legions of ardent fans find a treasure chest of new material from the author of such classics as And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile, but Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks is also a must-read tutorial for writers who want to learn the intricacies of constructing crime...
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's long hidden notebooks, including illus...
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Cornucopia of Crime: Memories and Summations
ISBN: 9781605434582 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the decades Francis M. Nevins has written dozens of articles and essays on the major influences of crime literature and here he collects them in 450+ pages. Coupled with some current essays on people he's known this makes for a book that any mystery fan will cherish and use as a reference book.
Over the decades Francis M. Nevins has written dozens of articles and essays on the major influences of crime literature and here he collects them in ...
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A Companion to Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9781405167659 / Angielski / Twarda / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the prese...
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Martha Grimes Walks Into a Pub: Essays on a Writer with a Load of Mischief
ISBN: 9780786442867 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1979 discovery of Martha Grimes' work in a slush pile at Little, Brown & Co., she has gone on to publish over thirty books and is one of the most respected crime writers presently working. This collection of ten critical essays provides an in-depth analysis of Grimes' oeuvre, principally the Richard Jury, Emma Graham, and Andi Oliver series. The essays address Grimes' themes of parental abandonment, loneliness, obsession, greed, mistaken and dual identity, the resilience of children, stunted romantic relationships and animal cruelty. Particular critical attention is paid to her...
Since the 1979 discovery of Martha Grimes' work in a slush pile at Little, Brown & Co., she has gone on to publish over thirty books and is one of th...
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel
ISBN: 9780786447862 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports, and prose monologue. His innovations in form were later mirrored by Vera Caspary, who adapted The Woman in White three times into contemporary fiction. This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir.
Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, thi...
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The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 8 No. 3) May-June 1984
ISBN: 9781434406446 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mystery Fancier, Volume 8 Number 3, May-June 1984, contains: "Memories of a Haunted Man," by Francis M Nevins, Jr., "Light and Sound by Joseph Hansen," by Martha Alderson, "Who Really Wrote the G-String Murders?" by J. R. Christopher and "On the Onomastics of Sherlock: Replaying the Name Game?" by Robert F. Fleissner.
The Mystery Fancier, Volume 8 Number 3, May-June 1984, contains: "Memories of a Haunted Man," by Francis M Nevins, Jr., "Light and Sound by Joseph Han...
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The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 4 No. 5) September/October 1980
ISBN: 9781434403902 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mystery Fancier, Volume 4 Number 5, September/October 1980, contains: "The Apocryphalization of Holmes," by E. F. Bleiler, "Edwin's Mystery and Its History," by Ben Fisher, "I Rember... B-Movies," by Jeff Banks, "Old Time Radio Lives," by Carl Larsen, and "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part IV," by Barry Van Tilburg.
The Mystery Fancier, Volume 4 Number 5, September/October 1980, contains: "The Apocryphalization of Holmes," by E. F. Bleiler, "Edwin's Mystery and It...
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