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This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twent
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Fall 2023)
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For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book review
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction
Language: en
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Authors: Casey Cothran
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fi
The Poetics of Murder
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Essays explore the reasons for the popularity of murder mysteries and discuss the literary techniques and social aspects of detective novels.
Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction
Language: en
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Authors: Alistair Rolls
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This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss