The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre

by Tony Hilfer

Book Overview

Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292711360
• ISBN13: 9780292711365
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"