Historical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film & TV

by Barry Forshaw

It's one of the most successful--and surprising--of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. Barry Forshaw has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest with Ellis Peters' crime-solving monk Brother Cadfael in the 1970s and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in 1980 (with another monkish detective), but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857301357
• ISBN13: 9780857301352
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"