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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Thomas, Ronald R. (Trinity College, Connecticut)
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Thomas, Ronald R. (Trinity College, Connecticut)
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America - from Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.
361 pages, 30 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 13, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521653039 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 362 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 627 g |
| Language | English |