Talking about detective fiction
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792769057 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0792769058 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: North Kingstown : BBC Audiobooks America, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 4:18:52. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Diana Bishop. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 62013 KB; MP3 file size: 121529 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. P. D...