Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture.

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And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.

While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 Briti