The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction, Volume 1
Ray B. Browne, Lawrence A. Kreiser
Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America.
Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales. |
Contents
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Detecting in the Final
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22 |
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Sister Fidelma and the Triumph of Truth
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45 |
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Brother Cadfael
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60 |
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Hugh Corbett SecretAgent and ProblemSolver
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76 |
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The Name of the Rose
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95 |
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Detection in the Italian Renaissance
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111 |
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The Case of Richard III
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133 |
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and Sleuth
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147 |
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A Genealogy of Detection in the Eighteenth Century
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186 |
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An EighteenthCentury Midwife
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202 |
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Where Have All the Dandies Gone?
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222 |
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Mark Twain as Detective
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240 |
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Victorian Istorian and Murdermonger
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265 |
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No Cribbing on History
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283 |
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Contributors
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306 |
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The Saga of the Dutchman
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169 |
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction Ray B. Browne,Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr No preview available - 2000 |
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