Figure of the Detective
Subtitle: A Literary History and Analysis
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780786477692
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism
Description: "This book begins with a history of the detective genre. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir"--