The Cambridge companion to crime fiction / [edited by] Martin Priestman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge companions to literaturePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xvii, 287 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521803993 (hardback)
  • 9780521803991 (hardback)
  • 0521008719 (pbk.)
  • 9780521008716 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Crime fiction
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 830.D4 C36 2003
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Contents:
Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- The short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Sch�utt -- The golden age / Stephen Knight -- The private eye / Dennis Porter -- Spy fiction / Davis Seed -- The thriller / David Glover -- Postwar American police fiction / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Postwar British crime fiction / Martin Priestman -- Women detectives / Maureen T. Reddy -- Black crime fiction / Andrew Pepper -- Crime on film and TV / Nickianne Moody -- Detection and literary fiction / Laura Marcus.
Summary: This companion covers British and American crime fiction from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction such as the thriller and spy fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index.

Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- The short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Sch�utt -- The golden age / Stephen Knight -- The private eye / Dennis Porter -- Spy fiction / Davis Seed -- The thriller / David Glover -- Postwar American police fiction / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Postwar British crime fiction / Martin Priestman -- Women detectives / Maureen T. Reddy -- Black crime fiction / Andrew Pepper -- Crime on film and TV / Nickianne Moody -- Detection and literary fiction / Laura Marcus.

This companion covers British and American crime fiction from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction such as the thriller and spy fiction.

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