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An Introduction to the Detective Story Leroy Lad Panek Popular Press This book is written in an aggressive, modern English well suited to a genre that has traditionally broken ground in aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue. It begins with an examination—and rejection—of a number of pseudo-detective stories from biblical apocrypha to accounts in Herodotus. LeRoy Lad Panek examines seventeenth-century stories of highwaymen and Godwin's The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) before getting down to Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Wilkie Collins's Woman in White and Moonstone, and, surprisingly, many of Charles Dickens's tales. Also reviewed are Gaboriau, Arthur Conan Doyle, the turn-of-the-century writers, the Golden Age stories, the hard-boileds, and the police procedurals. Finally, Panek takes a look at works from the late twentieth-century. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

Published 1987 LC: 87-070502 PN 222 pp.   6 x 9 Cloth $34.95 t ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-377-4 Paper $16.95 t ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-378-1 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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