The Art of Detective Fiction
In the hands of many of the great writers, the unravelling of mystery is only one strand within a complex project. Other things get unravelled, too - the belief in a rationally explicable world, in the beneficent, ordering force of culture and civilizatio
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The Art of Detective Fiction Edited by Warren Chernaik Martin Swales and Robert Vilain
palgrave macmillan
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Selection and editorial matter © Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales and Robert Vilain 2000 Introduction © Martin Swales 2000 Chapters 1-16 © the various contributors 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-312-22989-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London wn 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. Outside North America
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Contents Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on the Contributors
viii
Introduction Martin Swales 1 2
xi
Poe and the Beautiful Segar Girl
Josef Skvorecky
Body Language: a Study of Death and Gender in Crime Fiction
10
Fascination and Nausea: Finding Out the Hard-Boiled Way
21
Sarah Dzmant 3
1
David Trotter
4 The Writers Who Knew Too Much: Populism and Paradox in Detective Fiction's Golden Age
Davi
