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100 American Crime Writers

By Steven Powell (editor)

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9780230525375 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $100.00

The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study

Product Description: An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with authors who saw social justice as a work in progress...read more

By Robert E. Crafton

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9780786499380 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 9, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors.

After Sherlock Holmes: The Evolution of British and American Detective Stories, 1891-1914

Product Description: The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Holmes and the advent of the Golden Age of the detective story during World War I...read more

By Leroy Lad Panek

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9780786477654 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 29, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work.

America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture

By Erik Dussere

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9780199969913 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 1, 2013, cover price $105.00

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9780199969920 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2013, cover price $31.95

The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection

A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

By Jinny Huh

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9780813937014 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $59.50

9780394896151, titled "Pond and River" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Pond and River | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

9780394896168, titled "Sports" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Sports | About this edition: Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

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9780813937021 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection.

Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story

Product Description: Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers. The 19th century was actually awash in detective stories, though many, like the so-called detective notebooks, are so rare that they lay beyond the reach of even the most dedicated readers...read more

By Leroy Lad Panek

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9780786467877 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 29, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers.

Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard

Product Description: Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka looks at what makes the dope-dealers, bookies, grifters, financial advisors, talent agents, shady attorneys, hookers, models, and crooked cops of Leonard's world cool...read more

By Charles J. Rzepka

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9781421410159 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 13, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters.

Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970's

Product Description: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics...read more

By Julie H. Kim (editor)

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9780786473236 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 3, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics.

Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-boileds

By Lewis D. Moore

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9780786477715 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2014, cover price $40.00

The Crime Fiction Handbook

Product Description: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart...read more

By Peter Messent

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9780470657034 | Blackwell Pub, December 18, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

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9780470657041 | Blackwell Pub, November 28, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity

Product Description: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern...read more

By Stephen Knight

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9780230580732 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2010), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world.

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9780230580749 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2010), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world.

Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery, A Biography

By Sally Cline

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9781611457841 | Arcade Pub, February 4, 2014, cover price $22.95

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Product Description: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ronald R. Thomas

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9780521653039 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.

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9780521527620 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

Product Description: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner...read more

By Pamela Bedore

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9781137288646 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film

Product Description: Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs â the double, the labyrinth and the locked room...read more

By Ilana Shiloh

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9780820468433 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 15, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime.

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By M. Michelle Robinson

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9780472119813 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 2, 2016, cover price $75.00

Economic Investigations in Twentieth-century Detective Fiction: Expenditure, Labor, Value

Product Description: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour...read more

By Yan Zi-ling

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9781472452535 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2015, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour.

Ed McBain / Evan Hunter: A Literary Companion

Product Description: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle...read more

By Elizabeth Foxwell (editor) and Erin E. Macdonald

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9780786434886 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 3, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns.

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion

By Billy J. Stratton (editor)

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9780826357687 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $65.00

The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis

By Charles Brownson

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9780786477692 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 2, 2014, cover price $29.95

From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban American Crime Fiction

Product Description: This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States...read more

By Helen Oakley

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9783039110216, titled "From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 31, 2011, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century.

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography

Product Description: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded...read more

By Drewey Wayne Gunn

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9780810885882 | New edition (Scarecrow Pr, November 8, 2012), cover price $94.00 | About this edition: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953.

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9780810856813 | Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In 1953, Rodney Garland's The Heart in Exile was published, marking the first time a gay sleuth was featured in a novel.

The Hard-boiled Female Detective Novel: A Study of a Popular Literary Genre

Product Description: A study that explores women heroines in detective fiction written by women authors. It features heroines who subvert pop culture's traditional stereotypes for women. It further examines how this sub-genre has changed over time as does the popular culture it embodies.

By William R. Klink

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9780773442962 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 15, 2014, cover price $249.95 | About this edition: A study that explores women heroines in detective fiction written by women authors.

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero

By Otto Penzler (editor)

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9781935618577 | 1 edition (Benbella Books, April 24, 2012), cover price $14.95

Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Updated to cover new laws and standards, including Federal Safe Drinking Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Air Act of 1990. Applies sanitation and engineering theory and principles to environmental control in urban, suburban and rural communities. Engineering design, construction, operation and maintenance details are provided throughout as they relate to plants and structures. Topics include: disease control, water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, air pollution and noise control, radiation uses and protection, recreation areas, solid waste management and much more.

By Stuart Sim

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9781137469656 | Palgrave Pivot, April 8, 2015, cover price $67.50

9780471523772, titled "Environmental Engineering and Sanitation" | Wiley-Interscience, April 1, 1992, cover price $250.00 | also contains Environmental Engineering and Sanitation | About this edition: Updated to cover new laws and standards, including Federal Safe Drinking Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Air Act of 1990.

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