text Talking about detective fiction
- Summary
- P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from t... Read more
- Contents
- What are we talking about and how did it all begin? -- The tenant of 221B Baker Street and the parish priest from Cobhole in Essex -- The Golden Age -- Soft-centered and hard-boiled -- Four formidable women -- Telling the story : setting, viewpoin... Read more
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- Description
- viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Woodmere (Main Branch) | 823.8 JAM in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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TADL-WOOD | 823.8 JAM in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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