Masters of the "humdrum" mystery
Subtitle: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British detective novel, 1920-1961
By: Curtis Evans
Publisher: McFarland & Company; Brand: McFarland; McFarland
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780786470242
Subjects: Appreciation; English Detective and mystery stories; Criticism and interpretation; Science in literature; History and criticism
Other titles: British detective novel, 1920-1961
Description: "This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums" revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Masters" : Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart; title: Cecil John Charles Street (John Rhode/Miles Burton) (1884-1964) : Public brain tester no. 1; title: Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) : The greatest Puritan of them all; title: Alfred Walter Stewart (J.J. Connington) (1880-1947) : Survival of the fittest; title: Appendix I : Notable criminous works by Cecil John Charles Street; title: Appendix II : Notable criminous works by Freeman Wills Crofts; title: Appendix III : Round robin writer : Freeman Wills Crofts' contributions to The floating admiral (1931) and Double death (1939); title: Appendix IV : Notable genre works by Alfred Walter Stewart.