UID:
almahu_9947363615202882
Format:
224 p. :
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1 b&w, ill., 1.
ISBN:
9780230313736 :
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0230313736 :
Series Statement:
Crime files
Content:
The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.
Note:
Electronic book text.
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Epublication based on: 9780230276659, 2011.
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Preface Edgar Allan Poe and the Detective Story Narrative The Locked Compartment: Charles Dickens's The Signalman and Enclosure in the Railway Mystery Story The Body in the Library: Reading the Locked Room in Anna Katherine Green's The Filigree Ball G.K. Chesterton's Enclosure of Orthodoxy in The Wrong Shape The Hollow Text: Illusion as Theme in John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man Jorge Luis Borges and the Labyrinth of Detection The Question is the Writer Himself: Paul Auster's Locked Room in the City of Glass The Narrative of Enclosure Index.
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Document
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Language:
English
Keywords:
Crime & mystery fiction
URL:
Online journal 'available contents' page
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