| Description |
2 volumes (xiv, 780 pages) : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Series |
Greenwood icons |
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Greenwood icons.
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| Contents |
v. 1. Batman: the Herculean detective -- James Bond: the byronic spy -- Father Brown: the clerical sleuth -- Charlie Chan: "the first nonwhite popular detective" -- Agatha Christie: creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth -- Inspector Clouseau: the detective as buffoon -- Columbo: the disheveled detective -- Dragnet: television's most famous police drama -- Nancy Drew: the girl detective -- Jessica Fletcher: the mystery writer snoop -- Mike Hammer: a very imperfect, far from gentle knight -- Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop -- v. 2. Tony Hillerman : creator of ethnic detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee -- Alfred Hitchcock : cinemas master of suspense -- Sherlock Holmes : the genius detective -- Inspector Jules Maigret : the gallic gumshoe -- Philip Marlowe : the detective as knight errant -- Perry Mason : the legal sleuth : Edgar Allan Poe : The father of detective fiction -- Dorothy L. Sayers : creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic sleuth -- Sam Spade : the hard-boiled private eye -- Dick Tracy : the first comic strip police detective hero -- Nero Wolfe : the armchair sleuth -- Zorro : the masked avenger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories -- Authorship.
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| LC no. |
2010005083 |
| ISBN |
9780313345302 (2 vol. set : alk. paper) |
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0313345309 (2 vol. set : alk. paper) |
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9780313345326 (v. 1, hard copy) |
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0313345325 (v. 1, hard copy) |
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9780313345340 (v. 2, hard copy) |
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0313345341 (v. 2, hard copy) |
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