USA); W. Scott Poole (Asst. Professor of History; College of Charlestown University of Georgia Press (2004) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
USA); James R. Hansen (Auburn University; Auburn; Alabama and former NASA Historian Texas A & M University Press (2003) Saatavuus: Painos loppu Pehmeäkantinen kirja
USA), Jack Myers (Director, Creative Writing Program, Southern Methodist University,; Don C. Wukasch University of North Texas Press,U.S. (2003) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
USA); Michael J. Towle (Associate Professor of Political Science; Mount Saint Mary's College; Maryland Texas A & M University Press (2004) Saatavuus: Painos loppu Kovakantinen kirja
USA); Stan L. Ulanski (Professor of Geology and Environmental Science; James Madison University University of Virginia Press (2003) Saatavuus: Painos loppu Kovakantinen kirja
USA), Ann B. Murphy (Associate Professor of English, Assumption College,; Ireland), Deirdre Raftery (Lecturer in Education, Univ University of Virginia Press (2004) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
USA); Helen Heusner Lojek (Professor of English; Boise State University The Catholic University of America Press (2004) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
USA), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English, University of South Carolina,; Scottie Fitzgerald Smith University of South Carolina Press (2003) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
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This text identifies three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detection - mystery, detective and crime fiction. It attempts to express their interrelations, to define their differences, and to explain why these subgenres take the forms they do. Parts One and Two distinguish between mystery and detective in terms of their narrative worlds and their treatment of the sign. Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation (of behaviour and signs). Built in a faith of foundations, it insists upon the solidity of social life, the validity of social conventions and the sanctity of signs. Mystery assures us that motives exist for both words and deeds. Covering the forms that murder fiction takes, this study includes analyses of texts by Doyle; Christie; Sayers; Hammett; Chandler; Highsmith; Jim Thompson; Thomas Harris; and others. It demonstrates that various permutations of murder fiction make for very different narrative texture and reading experiences.
