Icons of mystery and crime detection

from sleuths to superheroes, v. 1

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Icons of mystery and crime detection: from sleuths to superheroes, v. 1
2010, Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, LLC
in English

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Table of Contents

v. 1. Batman: the Herculean detective
James Bond: the byronic spy
Father Brown: the clerical sleuth
Charlie Chan: "the first nonwhite popular detective"
Agatha Christie: creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth
Inspector Clouseau: the detective as buffoon
Columbo: the disheveled detective
Dragnet: television's most famous police drama
Nancy Drew: the girl detective
Jessica Fletcher: the mystery writer snoop
Mike Hammer: "the maligned and bloody knight"
Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Santa Barbara, Calif
Series
Greenwood icons

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.3/872
Library of Congress
PN3448.D4 B77 2010, PN3448.D4B77 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24566142M
ISBN 13
9780313345302, 9780313345319, 9780313345326, 9780313345333, 9780313345340, 9780313345357
LCCN
2010005083

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