A Century of Detection
Subtitle: Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina and London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780786446506
Copyright date: 2010
Description: "Appropriate for the general reader and the student, this wide-ranging anthology of mystery stories provides a chronological and thematic survey of early detection fiction. Six thematic categories foreground the genre's fluidity and evolution, with selections presenting detectives in an array of nationalities, genders and sexual orientations, socioeconomic classes, political points of view, and ethnic and racial backgrounds"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The Invention of Modern Detection; pagenum: Edgar Allan Poe |; pagenum: |The Murders in the Rue Morgue |; pagenum: |The Purloined Letter |; pagenum: | The Gold-Bug |; title: Variations on Poe, Expansions of the Form; pagenum: Wilkie Collins | Who Is the Thief? |; pagenum: Mark Twain | The Stolen White Elephant |; pagenum: G.K. Chesterton ||The Blue Cross |; title: The World's Most Celebrated Detective; pagenum: Arthur Conan Doyle |; pagenum: | A Scandal in Bohemia |; pagenum: |The Adventure of the Speckled Band |; pagenum: | The Adventure of the Final Problem |; pagenum: Bret Harte | | The Stolen Cigar Case |; title: Gender, Sexuality, and Detection; pagenum: Mary Wilkins Freeman |The Long Arm |; pagenum: Baroness Orczy | The Ninescore Mystery|; pagenum: Anna Katharine Green | Missing: Page Thirteen |; pagenum: Susan Glaspell |A Jury of Her Peers |; title: Tough Guys; pagenum: Carroll John Daly| The False Burton Combs |; pagenum: Dashiell Hammett | The Road Home |; pagenum: Cornell Woolrich | Murder at the Automat |; title: Race and Detection; pagenum: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins | Talma Gordon |; pagenum: Chester Himes |He Knew |; pagenum: Ralph Ellison | The Birthmark |; title: Suggested Reading.