Title: Detective and the Artist
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"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Artists in literature, English literature, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, American Detective and mystery stories, Detectives in literature, Poets in literature, Authors in literature, Detective and mystery stories