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  • Mystery fiction -- History and criticism.
     
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  • Noir fiction -- History and criticism.
     
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  • Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
     
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  • Spy stories -- History and criticism.
     
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    The life of crime : detecting the history of mysteries and their creators / Martin Edwards.
    by Edwards, Martin, 1955-
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    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.
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    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.
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    Literary criticism.
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