Crime Fiction since 1800
Knight, Stephen![Crime Fiction since 1800](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/638/6381846/CHSBZCOP036381846.jpg)
Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern.Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crim...