"Murder Will Out" The Detective in Fiction |
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| Author:
| Binyon, T. J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-282730-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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In "Murder Will Out," T.J. Binyon follows the trail of the detective in fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the present day. He offers a history not of a type of fiction, but of a type of character. Revealing the fictional detective in all of his guises, the volume ranges from the brilliant, eccentric amateur to the plodding, imperceptive policeman, including Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance, Ross Macdonald's...
More DescriptionIn "Murder Will Out," T.J. Binyon follows the trail of the detective in fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the present day. He offers a history not of a type of fiction, but of a type of character. Revealing the fictional detective in all of his guises, the volume ranges from the brilliant, eccentric amateur to the plodding, imperceptive policeman, including Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance, Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, and countless others.