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Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection : From Sleuths to Superheroes [2 Volumes].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brunsdale, Mitzi.
- Series:
- Greenwood icons.
- Greenwood icons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories--Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (806 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Contents:
- v. 1. Batman: the Herculean detective
- James Bond: the byronic spy
- Father Brown: the clerical sleuth
- Charlie Chan: "the first nonwhite popular detective"
- Agatha Christie: creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth
- Inspector Clouseau: the detective as buffoon
- Columbo: the disheveled detective
- Dragnet: television's most famous police drama
- Nancy Drew: the girl detective
- Jessica Fletcher: the mystery writer snoop
- Mike Hammer: "the maligned and bloody knight"
- Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop
- v. 2. Tony Hillerman : creator of ethnic detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brunsdale, Mitzi M. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection
- ISBN:
- 9780313345319
- OCLC:
- 699474608
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400668005 doi
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