Varieties of Crime Fiction


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Leading critic S.T. Joshi reviews surveys the work of 13 mystery and crime writers, ranging from the Golden Age, Hardboiled school, the Psychological Mystery, and Contemporary Writers.

The Golden Age

Dorothy L. Sayers: Lords and Servants
John Dickson Carr: Puzzlemeister
Margery Allingham: Murder, Gangs, and Spies
Philip MacDonald: Expanding the "Cosy" Mystery

II. The Hard-Boiled School
Dashiell Hammett: Sam Spade and Others
Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets
Ross Macdonald: Family Affairs
III. The Psychological Mystery

Margaret Millar: Scars of the Psyche
Patricia Highsmith: Guilt and Innocence
L. P. Davies: The Workings of the Mind

Some Contemporaries
P. D. James: The Empress's New Clothes
Ruth Rendell: The Psychology of Murder
Sue Grafton: Hard-Boiled Female



Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 09/19/2019
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781479445462
ISBN10: 1479445460
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors

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