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Mystery fiction as a genre renders moral judgments not only about detectives and criminals but also concerning the cultural structures within which these myster

Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to t

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published