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Author:   Curtis Evans ,  Curtis J Evans (University of Chicago Divinity School)
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780786470242

ISBN 10:   0786470240
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   15 June 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface      Introduction: Mere Puzzles?      Chapter “The Masters”: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart      Chapter Cecil John Charles Street ( John Rhode/Miles Burton) (1884–1964): Public Brain Tester No. 1      Chapter Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957): The Greatest Puritan of Them All      Chapter Alfred Walter Stewart ( J.J. Connington) (1880–1947): Survival of the Fittest      Appendix I: Notable Criminous Works by Cecil John Charles Street      Appendix II: Notable Criminous Works by Freeman Wills Crofts      Appendix III: Round Robin Writer: Freeman Wills Crofts’ Contributions to The Floating Admiral (1931) and Double Death (1939)      Appendix IV: Notable Genre Works by Alfred Walter Stewart      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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this is an important book of detective fiction history and criticism, with all the scholarly care and rigor of a first-rate academic study combined with an enjoyable literary style, an ideal combination for exploding a particularly pernicious piece of revisionist history. This should be a certain Edgar nominee. --Mystery Scene magisterial...deserves to be read --Michael Dirda, The Barnes & Noble Review this book restores their reputations and their place in the canon of Golden Age detective fiction...provides us with a picture of the sociocultural views of the generations of detective fiction writers (and readers) that matured between the two World Wars --Reference & Research Book News.

This is an important book of detective fiction history and criticism, with all the scholarly care and rigor of a first-rate academic study combined with an enjoyable literary style, an ideal combination for exploding a particularly pernicious piece of revisionist history. This should be a certain Edgar nominee. -- Mystery Scene Mystery Scene

this is an important book of detective fiction history and criticism, with all the scholarly care and rigor of a first-rate academic study combined with an enjoyable literary style, an ideal combination for exploding a particularly pernicious piece of revisionist history. This should be a certain Edgar nominee. --Mystery Scene; this book restores their reputations and their place in the canon of Golden Age detective fiction...provides us with a picture of the sociocultural views of the generations of detective fiction writers (and readers) that matured between the two World Wars --Reference & Research Book News.

this is an important book of detective fiction history and criticism, with all the scholarly care and rigor of a first-rate academic study combined with an enjoyable literary style, an ideal combination for exploding a particularly pernicious piece of revisionist history. This should be a certain Edgar nominee. --<i>Mystery Scene</i>; this book restores their reputations and their place in the canon of Golden Age detective fiction...provides us with a picture of the sociocultural views of the generations of detective fiction writers (and readers) that matured between the two World Wars --<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>.

Author Information

Curtis Evans, an independent scholar and book dealer, has published numerous articles and essays on detective fiction as well as an award-winning book on industry and labor in the American South. He lives in Germantown, Tennessee.

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