Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.
1940s (2006), The Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction: Secret Histories (2011) and Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age (2017). Kate Watson researches in the areas of crime fiction, ...
England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth Century Fiction . Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2001 . Booth , H. J. , and N. Rigby , eds . Modernism and Empire . Manchester University Press , 2000 . Bradbury , Malcolm , ed . The Novel Today .
Compare the most assertive of Marlowe's speeches to Brunette with that of Carmady to Fulwider, Laird's low-grade counterpart in "The Man Who Liked Dogs': 'You own a piece of Bay City,' I said, 'I don't know how big a piece, ...
**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or...
In September 1917, May Smith, a twenty-year-old arsenal worker who lived at a women's hostel on the Well Hall Estate, was charged in the Woolwich police court with the concealment of the birth of her child.
This completely revised fourth edition provides a source of information and comment on the most influential English language writers of the crime and mystery genre. An international panel of critics,...
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Fascinating period detail from the blackout days, a plot that keeps surprising, and contemporary crime novelist Martin Edwards' insightful introduction add to the fun." —Booklist ...
Presents critical studies of more than 290 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.