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Comic
Crime
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
Popular Culture
Earl Bargainnier has once again combined brilliant writers with an unbeatable theme. These authors have studied and written about many different aspects of the whodunits. Bargainnier brings them together here to explore the various punch lines of crime and mystery novels.
The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick, laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime.
It's not a crime and it is no mystery—there is something funny to laugh about in mystery and crime novels!
Earl F. Bargainnier was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language
and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the
Popular Culture Association, he was the author of more than sixty
articles and The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction
of Agatha Christie. He edited Ten Women of Mystery and Twelve Englishmen of Mystery and co-edited Cops
and Constables. Professor Bargainnier died January 3, 1987.
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LC: 87-071031 PS
202 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-383-5
Cloth $29.95 t
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-384-2
Paper $14.95 t
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