In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American no...

From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories ...

This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detec...

This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammet...

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TRANSFORMS THE PROVEN APPROACH OF THE MEGA-POPULAR PALEO DIET INTO A HARDCORE, MONTH-LONG DETOX T...

The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World ...

'It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland, all but devoid of life. ...

These are the Nero Wolfe novels of Rex Stout.

'You Know My Method' surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe's invention of the fictional d...