The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

by Susannah B. Mintz

Book Overview

The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350215430
• ISBN13: 9781350215436
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"