Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection : From Sleuths to Superheroes.

Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.||Icons of Mystery a...

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Main Author: Brunsdale, Mitzi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2010.
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505 0 |a Cover; Volume 2; Contents; Tony Hillerman: Creator of Ethnic Detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee; Alfred Hitchcock: Cinema's Master of Suspense; Sherlock Holmes: The Genius Detective; Inspector Jules Maigret: The Gallic Gumshoe; Philip Marlowe: The Detective as Knight Errant; Perry Mason: The Legal Sleuth; Edgar Allan Poe: The Father of Detective Fiction; Dorothy L. Sayers: Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the Aristocratic Sleuth; Sam Spade: The Hard-Boiled Private Eye; Dick Tracy: The First Comic Strip Police Detective Hero; Nero Wolfe: The Armchair Sleuth; Zorro: The Masked Avenger. 
505 8 |a Selected BibliographyIndex. 
520 |a Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.||Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie ChanÑin. 
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