Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
by Борис Акунин
Language: Russian
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Language: Russian
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Заканчивался 20-й век, на дворе 1998 год, вышла в свет книга Бориса Акунина "Азазель" о событиях века 19-го. И с этого момента читающая публика была захвачена, покорена...
by Борис Акунин
Language: Russian
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: Russian
Release Date: May 21, 2019
В этом сборнике соединены две книги, повествующие о последних делах феноменального русского сыщика Эраста Фандорина — так, как их расположил в хронологии реального...
La Fée carabine de Daniel Pennac (Analyse de l'oeuvre)
Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Décryptez La Fée carabine de Daniel Pennac avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de La Fée carabine, le roman policier réaliste et plein de fantaisie de la littérature française contemporaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse...
Les Enquêtes de Maigret, de Georges Simenon
Lecture des textes
Language: French
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Découvrez l'histoire du plus célèbre commissaire du cinéma et de la télévision
Le commissaire Maigret est aussi célèbre que Sherlock Holmes ou Hercule Poirot. Le héros créé par Georges Simenon en 1929 est entré dans la légende grâce au cinéma et à la télévision. Traduites...
Léo Malet
Parcours d'une œuvre
Language: French
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Découvrez les oeuvres et la vie du grand romancier noir Léo Malet
Léo Malet (1909-1996) est le père de Nestor Burma, le premier grand détective privé de la littérature française, immortalisé à l´écran et en bande dessinée. Son parcours, de la poésie surréaliste au roman d´énigme...
Detecting Canada
Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
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North of Quality?: Quality Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County
Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker
Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker undertake an analysis of the recent, very violent, critically acclaimed popular Canadian television series Durham County. Arguing that it was...
by Daniel M. Mendoza
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers delivers a portrait of contemporary working class authors in America. Editor Daniel M. Mendoza engages with “some of the best in contemporary literary fiction.” These one-on-one interviews seek to uncover how each writer has developed their working-class...
by Roger Thompson Finlay
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Wonder Island Boys Series
by Roger Thompson Finlay
This Series contains 6 existing novels:
The Wonder Island Boys - Exploring the Island
The Wonder Island Boys - The Mysteries of the Caverns
The Wonder Island Boys - The Tribesmen
The Wonder Island Boys -...
A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Edward Bulwer-Lytton—who coined the terms “the great unwashed” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”—is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan...
All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized...
Summary and Analysis of The Alienist
Based on the Book by Caleb Carr
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Alienist tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Caleb Carr’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This short...
by Mary Coley
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Jamie Aldrich is ready to begin the next chapter of her life. After dealing with a series of frightening events that began with the loss of her husband two years ago and the near-death of her elderly great aunt, she's taking a well-earned vacation with her fiancé in Oklahoma's historic Osage Hills...
Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals)
Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth...
Daniil Kharms and Sherlock Holmes
Between Imitation and Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Daniil Kharms (1905–42) is known as an author of Russian absurd literature. It is generally overlooked that the pseudonym Kharms encodes Sherlock Holmes’s Russian name of Kholms. An intertextual comparison between Kharms and Holmes shows how Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes made his way into Russian...