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ISBN: 9780752455396 - Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations
Holgate, Mike

ISBN10: 9780752475929  ISBN13: 9780752475929
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Electronic Book
Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved... More

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ISBN: 9780333918814 - Mystery in Children's Literature Mystery in Children's Literature

ISBN10: 9780333985137  ISBN13: 9780333985137
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9781403941084 - Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction

ISBN10: 9780230506282  ISBN13: 9780230506282
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195157611 - Whodunit? Whodunit?
Herbert, Rosemary

ISBN10: 9780198035824  ISBN13: 9780198035824
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780415969703 - Hardboiled and High Heeled Hardboiled and High Heeled
Mizejewski, Linda

ISBN10: 9780203489789  ISBN13: 9780203489789
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise... More

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ISBN: 9781403916839 - Women, Crime and Language Women, Crime and Language

ISBN10: 9780230500167  ISBN13: 9780230500167
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780754696421 - Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World
Pearson, Nels

ISBN10: 9780754696421  ISBN13: 9780754696421
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd Ashgate
Format: Electronic Book
Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and... More

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ISBN: 9780099542537 - Falco: The Official Companion Falco: The Official Companion
Davis, Lindsey

ISBN10: 9781446455234  ISBN13: 9781446455234
Publisher: Random House Cornerstone Digital
Format: Electronic Book
As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman informer, as he stood on the steps of the Temple of Saturn, looking out across the... More

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ISBN: 9781843582489 - Secret Life of Wallander Secret Life of Wallander
Hildred, Stafford

ISBN10: 9781843585848  ISBN13: 9781843585848
Publisher: John Blake Publishing John Blake
Format: Electronic Book
Almost 20 years since he first appeared in Henning Mankel's novel Faceless Killers, the sad Swedish detective Kurt Wallander has become a worldwide success story. Mankel's compelling books about the idealistic police inspector -- who is even more... More

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ISBN: 9780812205459 - Detecting Texts Detecting Texts
Merivale, Patricia; Sweeney, Susan

ISBN10: 9780812205459  ISBN13: 9780812205459
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Electronic Book
Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective storythe history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen... More