The Mysterious Romance of Murder : Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir /

The Mysterious Romance of Murder : Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir /

From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes fatales,-crime and crime-solving in fiction and film captivate us. Why do we keep going back to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehmann, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Detective and mystery films > History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories > History and criticism
Murder in literature
Murder in motion pictures
American Studies
Film
Literary Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective
1940 and 1950 crime movies, style of film noir, essays on crime fiction, crime fiction and film noir, trent's last case, the burnt orange heresy, double indemnity

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