Talking about Detective Fiction
Editorial FABER & FABER
Mainland Spain
- Publisher FABER & FABER
- ISBN13 9780571253586
- ISBN10 057125358X
- Type Book
- Collection INGLES #
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
ThrillerTalking about Detective Fiction
Editorial FABER & FABER
Mainland Spain
Book Details
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There are chapters on great American crime writers - the likes of Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. James also discusses many of her favourite famous detectives, from Sherlock Holmes to Philip Marlowe. P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room, presents a brief history of detective fiction and explores the literary techniques behind history's best crime writing.