"Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Done to death? : formula and variation in Perry Mason / J. Dennis Bounds. Order, error, and the novels of Raymond Chandler / Steven Weisenburger -- Raymond Chandler's pencil / James O. Tate -- Film in fiction : the real and the reel in Elmore Leonard / George Grella -- Aggravating the reader : the Harlem detective novels of Chester Himes / Gary P. Storhoff -- Murdering traditional assumptions : the Jewish-American mystery / Diana Arbin Ben-Merre -- Gender (de)mystified : resistance and recuperation in hard-boiled female detective fiction / Timothy Shuker-Haines and Martha M. Umphrey -- Bending the bow : The verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian detective / Meri-Jane Rochelson -- Injustice of it all : Polanski's revision of the private eye genre in Chinatown / James Maxfield -- Miller's Crossing : the poetics of Dashiell Hammett / Katherine M. Restaino -- "Very simplicity of the thing" : Edgar Allan Poe and the murders he wrote / Jan Whitt -- Done to death? : formula and variation in Perry Mason / J. Dennis Bounds.
Series:
Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 63
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