A contemporary history of American crime / Fred P. Graham. The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- The possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson -- Markheim / Robert Louis Hemingway -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- The destructors / Graham Greene -- The dressmaker's doll / Agatha Christie -- 2. The detective. from The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The adventure of the speckled band / A. Conan Doyle -- The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- The blue cross / G.K. Chesterton -- Fly paper / Dashiell Hammett -- The curtain / Raymond Chandler -- Find the woman / Ross Macdonald -- Inspector Maigret pursues / Georges Simenon -- The cold winds of Adesta / Thomas Flanagan -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain -- The genre extended. The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges -- They do not always remember / William Burroughs -- Views of my father weeping / Donald Barthelme -- from The far side of the dollar / Ross Macdonald -- from The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett -- 4. Theories. The omnibus of crime / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A defence of detective stories / G.K. Chesterton -- The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler -- The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden -- Murder and the mean streets : the hard-boiled detective novel / Geroge Grella -- Police report on the TV cop shows / Robert Daley -- A contemporary history of American crime / Fred P. Graham.
Summary:
This anthology, which may be used for a college class on detective and mystery fiction, includes short stories, selected passages from novels, two poems, and a final section of essays by writers in the genre. Each selection is followed by analytical questions. Includes an appendix: Topics for writing and research; and a bibliography: Suggestions for further reading.
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