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Pages: 307
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-24 - Publisher: McFarland
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Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:
Humpty Dumpty Jr. has always gotten the bad guy.Always. Except once, when the case got too personal. You know that case. The one about his Dad... And now, a fra
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
This text explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. It notes
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-05 - Publisher: Tor Books
From the award-winning author of Gil's All Fright Diner comes a fantastic sci-fi mystery read The Automatic Detective Even in Empire City, a town where weird sc
Language: en
Pages: 712
Pages: 712
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:
Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved b