The history of mystery / by Max Allan Collins ; research associates, Matthew V. Clemens, George Hagenauer.
by Collins, Max Allan
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- ISBN 13
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Portland, Or. : Collectors Press, 2001. First American Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Slight tear to front dw, otherwise as new. Scans available on request.; 196 pages; Description: 196 p. : col. illus. ; 32 cm. Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism. Series: Art fiction series. Summary: Footprints, a smoking revolver, broken glass . . . Whodunit? Get to the bottom of things with Max Allan Collins, who puts the enigmatic, endlessly fascinating world of the mystery genre under the magnifying glass in THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY. Starting with Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective Dupin, Collins tracks the modern detective story from its birth in Allan Pinkerton's Memoirs to its fullest flowering in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald. Collins widens his scope to explore the rich narrative and visual history of detective comics and the legacy of mystery in radio, television, and film noir. This stunning volume presents a magical selection of pulp and dime-novel covers of the thirties and forties, gats-and-gals paperback covers of the fifties and sixties, the Sunday strips' yellow-trenchcoat-clad Dick Tracy, and portraits of the terribly proper and totally astute television dynamos Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Jessica Fletcher. En route, Collins reveals true tidbits about some of mystery's leading lights, like the little known fact that Dashiell Hammett was persecuted during the McCarthy era and opted for jail over betraying a friend, and that Nancy Drew posed for Playboy magazine. Arguably the most comprehensive survey ever published, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY is sure to please the most discriminating sleuth.
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- Title
- The history of mystery / by Max Allan Collins ; research associates, Matthew V. Clemens, George Hagenauer.
- Author
- Collins, Max Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1888054530
- ISBN 13
- 9781888054538
- Publisher
- Portland, Or. : Collectors Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Or
- Date Published
- 2001
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