Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or `serious' fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising the question whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery's conventions are not belief systems or ideologies to be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity.
- ISBN10 1611471893
- ISBN13 9781611471892
- Publish Date 1 January 2001 (first published 30 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 207
- Language English