The contributors to this volume all pay tribute to, and seek to account for, the astonishing durability of the detective story as a narrative genre. The essays range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the 'Golden Age' of English detective story writing and to the 'hard-boiled' American version on the genre. This is a collection that will appeal to the scholar and to the devotee alike, to all those, in fact, who can never resist the lure of finding out whodunnit.
- ISBN10 0333746015
- ISBN13 9780333746011
- Publish Date 15 March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 255
- Language English