Disabled Detective
Subtitle: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng; und
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781474238229
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism; People with disabilities in literature
Description: "The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism"--Bloomsbury Publishing.