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The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir / David Lehman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehman, David, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Detective and mystery films--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Murder in literature.
- Murder in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2023)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lehman, David, 1948- Mysterious romance of murder
- ISBN:
- 9781501763649
- 9781501763632
- OCLC:
- 1288423266
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