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Laird R. Blackwell
This critical study presents the first thorough examination of the role Ellery Queen played in the flourishing of the detective-crime short story, with particular focus on the importance of Frederick…
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Offers the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. Almost 500 detective…
The first of its kind, this book analyses over 150 whodunit novels and short stories across the decades, from The Moonstone to the contemporary novels that saved the whodunit from…
H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series…
G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid writing, brilliant puzzles, biting social criticism, and metaphysical explorations…
