'Murder Will Out': The Detective in Fiction from Poe to the Present

by T.J. Binyon

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'No-one has approached the vast, continuing corpus of detective fiction in quite this way before.' Financial Times

What is it that has always made the detective such a popular figure in fiction? Why are we always so seduced by the search to discover 'whodunit'? And how far back does this fascination go?

Following the trail of the detective - from Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the time of this book's first publication in 1989 - T J Binyon's brilliant history explores one of fiction's most enduring characters, in all its many guises. Murder Will Out is an essential guide for anyone who has ever been gripped by a good crime novel and wants to investigate further.
  • ISBN10 0571250262
  • ISBN13 9780571250264
  • Publish Date 19 March 2009 (first published December 1989)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 16 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 174
  • Language English