Detective and the Artist
Subtitle: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781476677491
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism; Artists in literature; English literature, history and criticism; American literature, history and criticism
Description: "The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s focuses upon the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains, and victims, and as bystanders. Detectives may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes"--