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The Origins of the American Detective Story
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Pages: 237
Authors: LeRoy Lad Panek
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-24 - Publisher: McFarland

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Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in Ameri
A History of American Crime Fiction
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Authors: Chris Raczkowski
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Catherine Ross Nickerson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction
Language: en
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Authors: John Cullen Gruesser
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-11 - Publisher: McFarland

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This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other tex
Twelve American Detective Stories
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Edward D. Hoch
Categories: Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A virtual cornucopia of whodunits from the true masters of the craft, including Edgar Alan Poe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Craig Rice, Ellery Queen, and Raymond Cha