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The Detective as Historian History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Preface by Robin W. Winks Popular Press Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory's Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck's Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr's works; and Elizabeth Peter's Egyptologist-adventurer tales. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

2000 LC: 00-029245 PR 320 pp.   6 x 9 ISBN-10: 0-87972-815-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-815-1 Cloth $59.95 t ISBN-10: 0-87972-816-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-816-8 Paper $19.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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