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Edwards, Martin, 1955-
Subjects
Mystery fiction -- History and criticism.
Noir fiction -- History and criticism.
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
Spy stories -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Mystery in literature.
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Edwards, Martin, 1955-
Mystery fiction -- History and criticism.
Noir fiction -- History and criticism.
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
Spy stories -- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Mystery in literature.
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The
life
of
crime
:
detecting
the
history
of
mysteries
and
their
creators
/ Martin Edwards.
by
Edwards, Martin, 1955-
Collins Crime Club, 2022.
Call #:
809.3872 E26L
Subjects
Mystery fiction --
History
and criticism.
Noir fiction --
History
and criticism.
Suspense fiction --
History
and criticism.
Spy stories --
History
and criticism.
Crime
in literature.
Mystery in literature.
ISBN:
9780008192426 (hc)
Alternate title:
Detecting
the
history
of
mysteries
and
their
creators
Description:
724 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-643) and indexes.
Summary:
"In the first major
history
of
crime
fiction in fifty years, The
Life
of
Crime
:
Detecting
the
History
of
Mysteries
and
their
Creators
traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction. Author Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning
crime
novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the
Crime
Writers’ Association and series consultant to the British Library’s highly successful series of
crime
classics, and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book. He has been a widely respected genre commentator for more than thirty years, winning the CWA Diamond Dagger for making a significant contribution to
crime
writing in 2020, when he also compiled and published Howdunit: A Masterclass in
Crime
Writing by Members of the Detection Club and the novel Mortmain Hall. His critically acclaimed The Golden Age of Murder (Collins
Crime
Club, 2015) was a landmark study of Detective Fiction between the wars. The
Life
of
Crime
is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of
crime
fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus, Martin Edwards has thrown himself undaunted into the breadth and complexity of the genre to write an authoritative – and readable – study of its development and evolution. With
crime
fiction being read more widely than ever around the world, and with individual authors increasingly the subject of extensive academic study, his expert distillation of more than two centuries of extraordinary books and authors – from the tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann to the novels of Patricia Cornwell – into one coherent
history
is an extraordinary feat and makes for compelling reading."--Publisher.
Genre:
Literary criticism.
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