Essays on Detective Fiction

✍ Scribed by Bernard Benstock (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Death Deferred: The Long Life, Splendid Afterlife and Mysterious Workings of Agatha Christie....Pages 1-17
Dorothy L. Sayers: Mystery and Demystification....Pages 18-32
Rereading Ngaio Marsh....Pages 33-48
Dashiell Hammett and the Poetics of Hard-Boiled Detection....Pages 49-72
A Knock at the Backdoor of Art: The Entrance of Raymond Chandler....Pages 73-96
Ross Macdonald and the Past of a Formula....Pages 97-118
P. D. James....Pages 119-141
How Unlike the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen: The Detective Fiction of Peter Lovesey....Pages 142-158
The Van der Valk Novels of Nicolas Freeling: Going by the Book....Pages 159-173
Simenon and ‘Le Commissaire’....Pages 174-188
The Education of Martin Beck....Pages 189-209
Back Matter....Pages 210-218

✦ Subjects

Fiction