The legal thriller from Gardner to Grisham : see you in court! /

This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges. The legal thriller typically uses court trials as the suspense-creating backgro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sauerberg, Lars Ole, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Colección:Crime files series.
Temas:
1900-2099
Legal stories > History and criticism.
Suspense fiction > History and criticism.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literature: history & criticism.
Film: styles & genres.
Fiction & related items.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Suspense fiction
Legal stories
British literature
Fiction
Film genres
Literature
Literature, Modern
Englisch
Kriminalroman
Thriller
Recht
Rechtsanwalt
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literatures
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Legal Thriller
  • 2. Law and Literature: Legal Thrillers
  • 3. The Beginnings of a Success Story: Pulp Magazines and Legal Thrillers
  • 4. American Post-Second World War Thrill and Ethics Trials
  • 5. Genteel Jurisprudence: The British Scene
  • 6. See You in Court (1). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s
  • 7. See You in Court (2). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Women
  • 8. See You in Court (3). The American Genre Explosion from the Late 1980s: The Men
  • 9. Conclusions: In and Beyond the Anglo-American Courts of Fact and Fiction.

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