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Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection : From Sleuths to Superheroes.
Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators.||Icons of Mystery a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara :
ABC-CLIO,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Volume 2; Contents; Tony Hillerman: Creator of Ethnic Detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee; Alfred Hitchcock: Cinema's Master of Suspense; Sherlock Holmes: The Genius Detective; Inspector Jules Maigret: The Gallic Gumshoe; Philip Marlowe: The Detective as Knight Errant; Perry Mason: The Legal Sleuth; Edgar Allan Poe: The Father of Detective Fiction; Dorothy L. Sayers: Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the Aristocratic Sleuth; Sam Spade: The Hard-Boiled Private Eye; Dick Tracy: The First Comic Strip Police Detective Hero; Nero Wolfe: The Armchair Sleuth; Zorro: The Masked Avenger.
- Selected BibliographyIndex.