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Detective fiction, from Victorian sleuths to the present, by M. Lee Alexander

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Detective fiction, from Victorian sleuths to the present, by M. Lee Alexander
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Course guide includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109)
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Detective fiction
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sound recording
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645493615
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by M. Lee Alexander
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The modern scholar : great professors teaching you
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from Victorian sleuths to the present
Summary
Professor Alexander offers 14 lectures that cover groundbreaking authors from Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, and modern writers such as Nevada Barr and Jonathan Kellerman
Table Of Contents
Mysterious origins -- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian era -- The queen of crime : Agatha Christie and the Golden Age -- Gifted amateurs : academics and zoologists -- Private investigators and hard-boiled heroes -- Cops, capers, and police procedurals -- Spies among us : espionage and techno-thrillers -- In the teeth of the evidence : lawyers and legal eagles -- Medicine for murder : the medical mystery -- Probing the past : historical detective fiction -- Women of mystery : beyond female intuition -- International intrigue : detective fiction goes global -- Investigating identity : ethnic sleuths -- Regional sleuths and future trends in detective fiction
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adult
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