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Author:   Phyllis M. Betz
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781476677279

ISBN 10:   1476677271
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   09 March 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Cat. A Craft. A Cookie. A Cozy. Phyllis M. Betz Contemporary Cozy Mysteries, Agatha Christie and the 1990s: Six Steps Toward a Definition Marty S. Knepper The Cozy from the Margins: The Archetypes of Home and Heroism from Inside and Outside the Modern Cozy Susan Rowland Counterpointing the Cozy: Louise Penny’s Three Pines Paula T. Connolly Is the Cozy a ­Tailor-Made Style for Historical Crime Set in the 1920s and 1930s? Jennifer S. Palmer Displaced Controversies: The Paradoxes of the Cozy Setting Phyllis M. Betz This Cozy England: England and Englishness in Cozy Mystery Series Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi Extending Cozy Boundaries Kathryn Heltne Swanson The Body in the Library: The Library in the Cozy Mystery Mary P. Freier Aurora Teagarden, the Cozy and the Southern Gothic Jessica Gildersleeve Clara and Solange: Two Very Modern Detectives in a Very Cozy World Jon Wilkins A Likeable Man: Columbo as Cozy Detective Stephen Cloutier The Best of Both Worlds: Being Cozy and ­Hard-Boiled in Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Sally ­Beresford-Sheridan About the Contributors Index

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"""Compelling... A valuable foray into academic study of an extremely popular and widely read genre.""-Crime Fiction Studies"

Author Information

Phyllis M. Betz is a professor emerita of English from La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lives in Burlington, New Jersey.

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