The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction 1 1st Edition by Barry Forshaw ISBN 1843536544 9781843536543

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ISBN 10: 1843536544

ISBN 13: 9781843536543 

Author: Barry Forshaw

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams …all the evidence that counts

Table of contents:

1. Reading the entrails: Origins, motives, sources

2. The Golden Age: Classic mysteries

3. Hardboiled and pulp: Tough guys and tough talk

4. Private eyes: Sleuths and gumshoes

5. Cops: Police procedurals and mavericks

6. Professionals: Lawyers, doctors, forensics and others

7. Amateurs: Journalists and innocent bystanders

8. All in the mind: Matters psychological

9. The killer inside me: Serial killers

10. In the belly of the beast: Criminal protagonist

11. Organized crime: Wiseguys and godfathers

12. Crime and society: Class, race and politics

13. Espionage: Spies, spooks and supercriminals

14. Through a glass darkly: Historical crime

15. Foreign bloodshed: Crime in translation

16. Postmortem

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