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The contributors of this volume pay tribute to and seek to account for the astonishing durability of the detective story as a genre. The essays take a variety of theoretical approaches and include detective fiction in languages other than English. Particular attention is paid to the "Golden Age" of English detective story writing and to the hard-boiled American version of the genre.Chernaik, Warren L. is the author of 'Art of Detective Fiction' with ISBN 9780312229894 and ISBN 0312229895.
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