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9781935618577 | 1 edition (Benbella Books, April 24, 2012), cover price $14.95
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
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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.
Product Description: Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses on Raymond Chandler's creation of Philip Marlowe, a detective whose feeling for community and willingness to compromise radically changed the genre's vigilantism and violence...read more
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9780786442157 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 6, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism.
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
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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.
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
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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.
Product Description: International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century...read more
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9780786458516 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 19, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction.
Product Description: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue...read more
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9780786447862 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era.
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
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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.
A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
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9780789458384, titled "Pond & River" | Dk Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
9780394896151 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection | 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.
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9780789465559, titled "Pond & River" | Dk Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
9780394996158 | Random House Childrens Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $20.99 | also contains Changes: A Child's First Poetry Collection | 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.
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9780833550101, titled "Pond & River" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.35 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
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
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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.
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)
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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.
Product Description: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781579583408 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: First Published in 2001.
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9780748610877 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 26, 2001, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This text uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative gender.
Hardcover:
9780394896168 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection | 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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9780394996165 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $20.99 | also contains From Pea to Pumpkin: A Baby Journal | 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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