The Cambridge companion to crime fiction

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ISBN: 0511221673 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9780511221675 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
Physical Description: electronic
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xvii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, c2003.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Crime fiction and detective fiction -- Eighteenth-century crime writing / Ian A. Bell -- The Newgate novel and sensation fiction, 1830-1868 / Lynn Pykett -- The short story from Poe to Chesterton / Martin Kayman -- French crime fiction / Sita Sch�utt -- The golden age / Stephen Knight -- The private eye / Dennis Porter -- Spy fiction / Davis Seed -- The thriller / David Glover -- Postwar American police fiction / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Postwar British crime fiction / Martin Priestman -- Women detectives / Maureen T. Reddy -- Black crime fiction / Andrew Pepper -- Crime on film and TV / Nickianne Moody -- Detection and literary fiction / Laura Marcus.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Cambridge] : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Requires Adobe Reader 6.0 (file size: 1923 KB).
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