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| | Detective fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | He is sometimes referred to as the "grandfather of English detective fiction." His novel The Moonstone (1868) was described by T. | | | Poe's detective stories have been described as ratiocinative tales. | | | Early archetypes of these stories were the three Auguste Dupin tales by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget", and "The Purloined Letter". |
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| | The Great Detective Stories (1927, 1946 ed.) by Willard Huntington Wright |
| | All good detective novels have had for their protagonist a character of attractiveness and interest, of high and fascinating attainments — a man at once human and unusual, colorful and gifted. | | | The hero of detective fiction must stand outside of the plot, so to speak: his task is one of ferreting out impersonal mysteries; and he must come to his work with no more intimate relationship to the problem than is possessed by the reader himself. | | | Although the blind detective is a comparatively recent innovation in crime-mystery fiction, his methods belong necessarily to the logic-cum-intuition school, despite the fact that all his processes and conclusions are accounted for on strictly material and scientific grounds. |
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| | Scenes of Crime - Crime and Detective Novels |
| | Each novel is the story told by a different member of the Canterbury pilgrims, who determine to each tell a tale of mystery and terror in the evenings to counter the more famous tales during the day made famous by Chaucer. | | | A wealth of memorable, vividly drawn characters throng his novels, like the sinister Fisher of Men in the Athelstan novels, who is employed, with his team of men including the fish-like Icthys, to recover bodies from the Thames. | | | Athelstan is a wonderful character, a concientious hard-working man, struggling to overcome guilt over the part he played in the death of his brother on the battlefields of France, whilst applying his considerable intellect to problems on Cranston's behalf. |
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| | The Van Dine School |
| | The best parts of the novel are the opening (Prologue, Chapters 1-5), a deepening of the mystery (Chapter 15), and the solution of the locked room problem (Chapters 22-23). | | | This book was never published; it is another evidence of the deliberate suppression of the traditional detective story after 1945 by publishers. | | | The star of this tale is King's series detective Reginald De Puyster, who is clearly related to Philo Vance. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Detective Fiction |
| | Arguably the first modern detective novel is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's murder mystery The Trail of the Serpent (1861). | | | Poe followed this with three further detective short stories, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1842), “The Gold Bug” (1843) and “The Purloined Letter” (1845). | | | More female detectives appeared in 1864 in Andrew Forester's The Female Detective and the anonymous Revelations of a Lady Detective (attributed to W. Hayward). |
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| | The Mystery/Detective Novels. -- Julian Barnes Discussion Board |
| | An author who does this, however, immediately creates a hall of mirrors for the reader: this is Barnes, writing as the character "Dan," in the first person, who is himself writing as the character "Duffy," who is a detective... | | | An author who does this, however, >immediately creates a hall of mirrors for the reader: >this is Barnes, writing as the character "Dan," in the >first person, who is himself writing as the character >"Duffy," who is a detective... | | | My favorite Barnes novels are: "England, England"; "Flaubert's Parrot," and "Love, etc." |
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| | Detective-Mystery Films |
| | The characters in MGM's The Thin Man (1934) were derived from Dashiell Hammett's 1934 novel of the same title. | | | This genre has ranged from early mystery tales, fictional or literary detective stories, to classic Hitchcockian suspense-thrillers to classic private detective films. | | | The debonair and aristocratic Falcon character was taken from Michael Arlen's detective stories. |
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| | Private Detective |
| | "The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective," Chandler said. | | | He said that a man like Marlowe would no more be a private detective than he would be a university don. | | | He went on to write classic detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." |
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| | American Mystery and Detective Novels — www.greenwood.com |
| | American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. | | | Description: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. | | | The information therein is valuable and accurate....Another point to note is that Landrum's author index includes the best known characters in classic detective stories, such names as Father Brown, Perry Mason, Lord Peter Wimsey and the like. |
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| | Latter-day Saints / Mormons in Mystery Novels |
| | Some of these novels contain material which some Latter-day Saint readers would find offensive, either because the book was intended by the author as defamation of Christians in general or Mormons in particular, or simply because the portrayal is inaccurate or based on century-old pulp fiction stereotypes. | | | Given the nature of mystery novels, this should not be surprising, because the genre is focused on the dark side of every culture and character. | | | Murder of a Prophet: The Dark Side of Utah Polygamy tells a fictional story of one man's attempt to unite all of the polygamous groups in the Rocky Mountain in order to mount a violent campaign to overthrow the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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| | Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective |
| | He is the author of several detective novels, all of which, he would be quick to remind us, are out of print. | | | Asked how he would have liked to spend his life, he responds for once with neither hostility nor sarcasm: "I would have liked to use my pen to praise a loving God and all his loving creation." | | | Something more than simple fever is warping Marlow’s soul, and herein lies the real mystery of The Singing Detective… |
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| | Professor sheds light on Latin American detective fiction |
| | Although “Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons” is suitable for anyone with an interest in detective literature or Latin American society, Braham said she believes that her book also will appeal to any reader interested in the general link between literature and culture. | | | “I’ve always liked certain kinds of detective fiction, but I was all set to do a dissertation on 19th-century literature of independence when my dissertation adviser came back from a big international book fair with this novel by a Cuban writer,” Braham explained of the project’s early stirrings. | | | “Also, the authors of these novels are all poets and historians and journalists. |
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| | Detective novels take on the world csmonitor.com |
| | Critics say: Charming story of Botswana's first female detective. | | | But that's not to say that all foreign writers lack firsthand knowledge of English. | | | Critics say: Gripping tale is Canada's first great crime novel |
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| | Detective Novels |
| | I also love Belamy.I blame my age for fogoting the Title of the novel in which Belamy comes as the Detective. | | | I left my complete library in SriLanka and came to Canada.I was having almost all the novels by Cheney in my library but unfortunately I do not have even a single copy of those wonderful creations.Whenever I go to Book Stalls I use to search for Cheney in vain. | | | Please can someone who has any collection of Peter Cheney detective novels kindly put it (them) on this web for free downloading. |
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| | Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang |
| | If you've ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like, | | | Dizzy with a dame, To be: To be deeply iin love with a woman | | | Other arrangements may be made by contacting me. |
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| | Quick Term Papers, Term papers, 051017 |
| | It will be seen that while the adult novels are undeniably more complex than the children's works, both generally present their audiences with the comforting familiarity of formulaic plot and repeating characters. | | | This paper will argue that the key point of similarity between the two forms of detective fiction is the adherence of the authors to a formula. | | | A comparative analysis of five recent children's detective novels and five recent adult detective novels. |
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| | Catalog: Classic Detection |
| | As well as many "Crime & Crinoline" novels in the | | | There are also mystery & detective materials in the |
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| | Joe's Twenty-Five Fave Detective Novels |
| | Head on over to the complete, annotated list on Joe's Detective Pages. | | | For Joe's illuminating explanation of his choices, hear it straight from the horse's mouth. | | | By the way, I know they're not all PI novels. |
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| | Detective Novels |
| | Apr., novels by Frank Johnson, John L. Benton |
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| | british detective novels |
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