100 American Crime Writers / / edited by Steven Powell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785798103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke, Hampshire : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• ISBN: 9781785395499; 1785395491; 9781283587662; 1283587661; 9786613900111; 6613900117; 9781137031662; 1137031662
• Edizione: [1st edition 2012.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 373 pages)
• Collana: Crime Files Series
• Classificazione: FIC022000FIC030000LIT004020
• Disciplina: 813.087209
• Soggetti: Crime writing; Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism; America; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Culture - Study and teaching; Fiction; North American Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Regional and Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements "Out of the Venetian Vase": From Golden Age to Hard-boiled"After These Mean Streets": Crime Fiction and the Chandler InheritanceMegan AbbottPaul AusterW.T. BallardAnn BannonRobert BlochLawrence BlockLeigh BrackettGil BrewerFredric BrownHoward BrowneEdward BunkerJames Lee BurkeW.R. BurnettJames M. CainPaul CainTruman CapoteJohn Dickson CarrVera CasparyRaymond ChandlerHarlan CobenMax Allan ; CollinsRichard CondonMichael ConnellyPatricia CornwellRobert CraisJames CrumleyCarroll John DalyNorbert DavisMignon G. EberhardtJames EllroyJanet EvanovichWilliam FaulknerKenneth FearingRudolph FisherKinky FriedmanJacques FutrelleErle Stanley GardnerWilliam Campbell GaultDavid GoodisSue GraftonDavis GrubbFrank GruberDashiell HammettThomas HarrisCarl HiaasonPatricia HighsmithGeorge V. HigginsTony HillermanChester HimesDorothy B. HughesRoy HugginsDay KeaneJonathan KellermanC Daly KingJonathon LatimerDennis LehaneElmore LeonardIra LevinElizabeth LinningtonEleazar LipskyJohn LutzEd McBainHorace McCoyWilliam P. McGivernJohn D. MacDonaldRoss MacdonaldDan J. MarloweMargaret MillarWalter MoselyMarcia MullerFrederick NebelBarbara NeelyWilliam F. NolanSara ParetskyRobert B. ParkerGeorge PelecanosEdgar Allan PoeMelville Davisson PostRichard S PratherBill PronziniEllery Queen (aka Dannay and Lee)Arthur B. ReeveMary Roberts RinehartJames SallisGeorge S SchuylerViola Brothers ShoreIceberg SlimMickey SpillaneRex StoutJim ThompsonErnest TidymanLawrence TreatS.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright)Joseph WambaughCarolyn WellsDonald E WestlakeRaoul WhitfieldCharles WillefordCharles WilliamsCornell Woolrich Bibliography Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.