Titlebook: Essays on Detective Fiction; Bernard Benstock (Professor of Comparative Literat Book 1983 Bernard Benstock 1983 detective fiction.fiction.

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Dashiell Hammett and the Poetics of Hard-Boiled Detection,s when he was doing his best work — chiefly the late 1920s — he managed to reconcile some of the deepest contradictions in his culture. He was a man of action and a man of sensibility, an ex-private-eye who looked like an aristocrat; he wrote five novels and a few dozen stories which provided materi

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P. D. James,y Julian Symons.’ The genre is dead; but not only will it not lie down — it’s all alive again and doing very well indeed. P. D. James is by no means the only writer to be living disproof to Symons, but she is clearly one of the most interesting practitioners of the classic genre.

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How Unlike the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen: The Detective Fiction of Peter Lovesey,g of detective stories. But so it turned out for Peter Lovesey, former head of the General Education Department in London’s Hammersmith College and the creator of Sergeant Cribb. ‘It started’, Lovesey has written, ‘with Deerfoot,’ an American Indian who in Victorian times held the world’s record for

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The Van der Valk Novels of Nicolas Freeling: Going by the Book, The dead boy’s lover sits before him in the police bureau, prim, self-possessed and resisting: ‘I don’t see why I should be questioned about my private life as though I were a criminal or something.’ This scene is worth isolating here because Van der Valk’s answer to the girl allows us to locate th

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