Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Klinger Leslie S.Pevná vazba
American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers--with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery--appeared on the scene and rose…
Specifikacia Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Klinger Leslie S.Pevná vazba
American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers--with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery--appeared on the scene and rose to heights of popularity not witnessed since the success of the Sherlock Holmes tales in America.Classic American Crime Writing of the 1920s--including House Without a Key, The Benson Murder Case, The Roman Hat Mystery, Red Harvest, and Little Caesar--offers some of the very best of that decade's writing. Earl Derr Biggers wrote about Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American detective, at a time when racism was rampant. S. S. Van Dine invented Philo Vance, an effete, rich amateur psychologist who flourished while America danced and the stock market rose. The quintessential American detective Ellery Queen leapt onto the stage, to remain popular for fifty
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