100 British Crime Writers.
Miskimmin, Esme.
2020
PN1-PN6790
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title 100 British Crime Writers.
Author Miskimmin, Esme.
ISBN 9781137319029
113731902X
0230203647
9780230203648
Imprint London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (425 p.).
Call Number PN1-PN6790
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.41
Summary 100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.
Note 23 Agatha Christie (1890-1976), 1920: US Publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles (UK 1921).
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Crime Files Ser.
Available in Other Form 100 British Crime Writers
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Intro
Foreword: How Many Narratives of Crime? Stephen Knight, Melbourne, Australia, 2014
Acknowledgements
General Introduction: Even More 'Murder For Pleasure'
100 British Crime Writers, In Order Of Appearance
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Part I The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918
1 Caroline Clive (1801-1873), 1855: Paul Ferroll
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
2 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), 1860: The Woman in White
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
3 Mrs. Henry Wood (1814-1887), 1861: East Lynne
Suggested Reading/Works Cited

4 Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), 1862: Lady Audley's Secret
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
5 Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), 1887: A Study in Scarlet
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
6 George R. Sims (1847-1922), 1890: The Case of George Candlemas
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
7 C. L. Pirkis (1839-1910), 1893: First Publication of the 'Loveday Brooke' Stories in the Ludgate Monthly
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
8 Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), 1894: First Publication of the 'Martin Hewitt' Stories in The Strand Magazine
Suggested Reading/Works Cited

9 E. Phillips Oppenheim (Also Wrote as Antony Partridge, 1866-1946), 1898: The Mysterious Mr. Sabin
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
10 E. W. Hornung (1866-1921), 1899: The Amateur Cracksman
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
11 Baroness Orczy (1865-1947), 1901: First Publication of Six 'The Old Man in the Corner' Stories in The Royal Magazine
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
12 Erskine Childers (1870-1922), 1903: The Riddle of the Sands
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
13 Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), 1905: The Four Just Men
Suggested Reading/Works Cited

14 R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943), 1907: The Red Thumb Mark (First Novel in the 'Dr. Thorndyke' Series)
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
15 G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), 1908: The Man Who Was Thursday
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
16 Edwy Searles Brooks (1889-1965), 1912: First Contribution to the 'Sexton Blake' Series in the Union Jack Story Paper
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
17 Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), 1912: First 'Fu Manchu' Story, 'The Zayat Kiss', in The Story-Teller Magazine
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
18 E. C. Bentley (1875-1956), 1913: Trent's Last Case

Suggested Reading/Works Cited
19 Ernest Bramah (1868-1942), 1914: Max Carrados
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
20 John William Bobin (Also Wrote as Adelie Ascott, John Ascott, Katherine Greenalgh, Gertrude Nelson, Victor Nelson, and Isabelle Norton, 1889-1935), 1915: First Contribution to the Sexton Blake Library
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
21 John Buchan (1875-1940), 1915: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Suggested Reading/Works Cited
Part II The Golden Age and World War Two 1919-1945
22 H. C. Bailey (1878-1961), 1920: Call Mr. Fortune
Suggested Reading/Works Cited

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export