The Oxford Book of Detective Stories

Patricia Craig editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:8th Aug '02

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The Oxford Book of Detective Stories cover

The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.

ISBN: 9780192803719

Dimensions: 215mm x 138mm x 33mm

Weight: 647g

604 pages