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the locked room mystery

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the locked room mystery

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
210

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Table of Contents

Preface
Edgar Allan Poe and the detective story narrative
The locked compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The signalman' and enclosure in The railway mystery story
The body in the library: reading the locked room in Anna Katherine Green's The filigree ball
G. K. Chesterton's enclosure of orthodoxy in 'The wrong shape'
The hollow text: illusion as theme in John Dickson Carr's The hollow man
Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinth of detection
The story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass
The narrative of enclosure.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England], New York
Series
Crime files series
Other Titles
Locked room mystery

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.3/872
Library of Congress
PN3448.D4 C559 2011, PN849.G74PN45-PN57HM

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
210

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24839178M
ISBN 13
9780230276659
LCCN
2011011753
OCLC/WorldCat
711049325

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15933084W

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