Murder Most Fair : The Appeal of Mystery Fiction (Hardcover)
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Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or ‘serious’ fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising the question whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery’s conventions are not belief systems or ideologies to be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity.
Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or 'serious' fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising the question whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery's conventions are not belief systems or ideologies to be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity.
Murder Most Fair investigates the appeal of mystery fiction with examples from before Poe to the end of the twentieth century. Mystery fiction and mainstream or ‘serious’ fiction changes places in many late-twentieth-century works, raising the question whether mystery can continue to appeal. But mystery’s conventions are not belief systems or ideologies to be made obsolete; its formulas have resilience and longevity.
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Book format
Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction
Fiction
Genre
Mystery & Suspense
Pub date
2000-11-01
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