The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir

by David Lehman

Book Overview

From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes fatales--crime and crime solving in fiction and film captivate us. Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The Mysterious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501763628
• ISBN13: 9781501763625
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up