03506oam 2200565 450 991079576680332120230528142700.09781501763649(electronic bk.)9781501763632(epub)10.1515/9781501763649(CKB)21529132800041(MiAaPQ)EBC6643722(Au-PeEL)EBL6643722(OCoLC)1288423266(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97636(DE-B1597)590521(DE-B1597)9781501763649(EXLCZ)992152913280004120220430h20222022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe mysterious romance of murder crime, detection, and the spirit of noir /David LehmanIthaca :Cornell University Press,2022.©20221 online resource (ix, 281 pages)Print version: Lehman, David, 1948- Mysterious romance of murder Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501763625 (DLC) 2021048703 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the mysterious romance of murder -- Cracking wise -- Paradise of the damned: 17 notes on noir -- Poetry noir -- Five noir poems -- Heres to crime -- The last cigarette -- Among my souvenirs -- The great British spymasters -- The limits of logic: Trents last case (E. C. Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- Grim grin (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The -- lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogue's gallery -- Why not New York? -- Three astrological profiles -- No R."The Mysterious Romance of Murder is about mysteries, murder-mystery movies and books, and about the romance of "noir" as a style, an outlook, a spirit"--Provided by publisher.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticismDetective and mystery filmsHistory and criticismMurder in literatureMurder in motion pictures1940 and 1950 crime movies, style of film noir, essays on crime fiction, crime fiction and film noir, trent’s last case, the burnt orange heresy, double indemnity.Detective and mystery storiesHistory and criticism.Detective and mystery filmsHistory and criticism.Murder in literature.Murder in motion pictures.809.3872Lehman David1948-1476555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQDLC9910795766803321The mysterious romance of murder3808711UNINA