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A Century of Detection : Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0786446501
ISBN-13 9780786446506
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 2nd, 2010
Print length 378 Pages
Weight 653 grams
Dimensions 25.40 x 17.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification: Anthologies (non-poetry)Crime & mystery
Ksh 7,600.00
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Examines the history of detective fiction from 1841 to 1940, a period which spawned some of its greatest writers. It includes analysis of stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Susan Glaspell, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Chester Himes, and Ralph Ellison.

Designed for mystery lovers as well as professors and students in college courses devoted to detective fiction, this anthology features classic texts, pivotal works by lesser-known authors, and unknown gems by major writers not typically associated with the genre.

Providing a chronological and thematic survey of the first 100 years of detection, this volume includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, G.K. Chesterton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Baroness Orzcy, Susan Glaspell, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Pauline Hopkins, Chester Himes and Ralph Ellison.

Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.


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