American Detective Fiction

by Ruth Hawthorn

Why has American Detective Fiction proved so enduringly popular? This penetrating study traces a genre which has dominated the top of bestseller lists throughout the latter half of the twentieth century back to its roots in the nineteenth century in the shape of Poe's brief series of short stories featuring the erudite sleuth, Auguste Dupin, and Anna Katherine Green's hugely influential but until recently, critically neglected novel, The Levenworth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074869983X
• ISBN13: 9780748699834
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages