Icons of mystery and crime detection
Subtitle: from sleuths to superheroes, v. 1
By: Mitzi M. Brunsdale.
Series: Greenwood icons
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9780313345302; 9780313345319
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories -- Authorship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Batman:  the Herculean detective; title: James Bond:  the byronic spy; title: Father Brown:  the clerical sleuth; title: Charlie Chan:  "the first nonwhite popular detective"; title: Agatha Christie:  creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth; title: Inspector Clouseau:  the detective as buffoon; title: Columbo:  the disheveled detective; title: Dragnet:  television's most famous police drama; title: Nancy Drew:  the girl detective; title: Jessica Fletcher:  the mystery writer snoop; title: Mike Hammer:  "the maligned and bloody knight"; title: Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop.