American Mystery and Detective Novels

American Mystery and Detective Novels
Title American Mystery and Detective Novels PDF eBook
Author Larry Landrum
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 297
Release 1999-05-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0313003270

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Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.

Crime Hits Home

Crime Hits Home
Title Crime Hits Home PDF eBook
Author S.J. Rozan
Publisher Harlequin
Pages 377
Release 2022-04-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0369718887

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*An Anthony Award 2023 Finalist* The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go back. But evenin these safest of places, sometimes…crime hits home. What happens then? In this volume, MWA brings together some of today’s biggest crime writers—and some of our most exciting new talents—to consider this question. Each writer has defined home as they see fit: a place, a group, a feeling. The crime can come from without or within. What happens when crime hits home? Featuring stories from: Naomi Hirahara David Bart Sara Paretsky Susan Breen Gary Phillips Neil S. Plakcy Renee James Connie Johnson Hambley Gabino Iglesias A.P. Jamison Walter Mosley Tori Eldridge Ellen Hart G. Miki Hayden Jonathan Santlofer Jonathan Stone Ovidia Yu Bonnie Hearn Hill Steve Liskow S.J. Rozan

African American Mystery Writers

African American Mystery Writers
Title African American Mystery Writers PDF eBook
Author Frankie Y. Bailey
Publisher McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
Pages 271
Release 2008-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780786433391

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"This book examines works of African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. Chapters cover the movement by Black authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers to fiction writing; the transition from early genre writers to protest writers of the 1940s and 1950s"--Provided by publisher.

The postman always rings twice

The postman always rings twice
Title The postman always rings twice PDF eBook
Author James M. Cain
Publisher
Pages 93
Release 1997
Genre Literatura norteamericana
ISBN

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The Lighthouse Witches

The Lighthouse Witches
Title The Lighthouse Witches PDF eBook
Author C.J. Cooke
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 392
Release 2021-09-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0008354715

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Don’t miss the brand-new chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author . . .

American Mystery and Detective Writers

American Mystery and Detective Writers
Title American Mystery and Detective Writers PDF eBook
Author George Parker Anderson
Publisher
Pages 520
Release 2005
Genre American fiction
ISBN

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Essays on authors whose lives span the twentieth century and serve as examples in the complex evolution of an immensely popular genre that has been greatly affected by market forces. Their careers and works reveal changing perspectives on crime and punishment in American society and culture.

100 American Crime Writers

100 American Crime Writers
Title 100 American Crime Writers PDF eBook
Author S. Powell
Publisher Springer
Pages 386
Release 2012-08-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137031662

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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.