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Jolly Good Detecting

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Author : Bruce Shaw
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-12-31

Jolly Good Detecting written by Bruce Shaw and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.

Jolly Good Detecting

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Author : Bruce Shaw
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-12-19

Freda A Novel

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Author : Freda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878

Freda A Novel written by Freda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.

Freda By The Author Of Mrs Jerningham S Journal

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Author : Elizabeth Anna Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878

Freda By The Author Of Mrs Jerningham S Journal written by Elizabeth Anna Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.

Public Opinion

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874

Public Opinion written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Press categories.

The Delights Of Detection

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Author : Jacques Barzun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961

The Delights Of Detection written by Jacques Barzun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Detective and mystery stories categories.

Victorian Tales Of Mystery And Detection

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Author : Michael Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1992

Victorian Tales Of Mystery And Detection written by Michael Cox and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.

Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction.