Private Eyes: 101 Knights : A Survey of American Detective Fiction 1922-1984
by Robert A. Baker
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Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called the mean streets, the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.Tags
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Great overview and rundown of the best years (in my opinion) of detective/mystery fiction in America.
If you've not read much of the genre, this might steer you to some great reads, but it's more of a relevant read for those interested in the writers and the backgrounds around the stories as well.
If you've not read much of the genre, this might steer you to some great reads, but it's more of a relevant read for those interested in the writers and the backgrounds around the stories as well.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.0872 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
- LCC
- PS374 .D4 .B35 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Prose Prose fiction
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