Author | : Cecil John Charles Street |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Trials (Murder) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cecil John Charles Street |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Trials (Murder) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Rhode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Trials (Murder) |
ISBN | : 9781561696222 |
Author | : Cecil John Charles Street |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Trials (Murder) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Curtis Evans |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786490896 |
In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Includes section "Book reviews."
Author | : W. H. Williamson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2020-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100015632X |
This title, first published in 1930, examines the events of eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes. Annals of Crime explores whether the women mentioned would have committed these crimes if their circumstances had been different. This book will be of interest to students of history, criminology and gender studies.
Author | : James Patton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Includes section "Book reviews."
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1999-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551112435 |
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins’s classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collins’s story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face “sharp as a hatchet”—looks for the culprit. One of Collins’s best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.