Author: Binyon, T. J.
Title: Murder Will out: The Detective in Fiction.
Description: Oxford Oxford University Press (OUP), 1989. 1st ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket, protected by removable paper lined semiarchival plastic sleeve. 166 pp. Follows the trail of the detective in fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's chevalier Dupin to the present day. This book is not a history of a type of fiction, but a type of character - the fictional detective in all his guises, ranging from the brilliant eccentric amateur, to plodding policemen. This is an indispensable guide to who did what to whom, and how. ISBN: 019219223X

Keywords: literature criticism, crime fiction, history 019219223X


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