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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Format: Book
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Understanding Agatha Christie
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2023Table of Contents: “…Understanding Agatha Christie : the seven paradoxes of her appeal -- Agatha Christie's life and puzzling persona -- The scofflaw of the golden age of detective fiction -- The hardboiled queen of the cozies -- The poet of genre fiction -- The tragicomic themes of Christie's murders -- The queer insularity of Christie's England -- Christie's murders at the movies . . . …”
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The left-handed dollar : an Amos Walker novel
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2011
Large print ed.Format: Book
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Shakespeare for squirrels
New York, NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020Format: Book
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Our Nazis : representations of fascism in contemporary literature and film
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'Having Your Nazi Cake and Eating It' -- Nazi Noir: Hardboiled Masculinity and Fascist Sensibility from Ambler and Greene to Philip Kerr -- The Fascist Corpus in the Age of Holocaust Remembrance: Harris' Fatherland and McEwan's Black Dogs -- 'Fascism' as Excess and Abjection: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones -- The Good German: The Stauffenberg plot and its discontents -- 'Operation Kino': Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as meta-cinematic farce -- Coda.…”
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Creepy crawly crime. (Joey Fly, private eye, vol. 1.)
New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt, 2009Format: Book
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Scandinavian crime fiction
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Welfare State -- Welfare Crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Novel of a Crime -- The Hardboiled Social Worker: Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum -- Crime Fiction in an Age of Crisis: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers and Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Landscape and Memory in the Criminal Periphery -- Criminal Peripheries: Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater -- Investigating the Family in the Welfare State -- Conclusion.…”
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Music and mythmaking in film : genre and the role of the composer
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Film genre/film music -- Alien harmonies : the science fiction film -- Music for the mean streets : the hardboiled-detective film -- Swashbuckling symphonies: the historical romance film -- The rhythm of the range : the western film score -- From Swan Lake to synthesizers : the music of horror films -- The best there ever was in the game : musical mythopoesis and heroism in film scores of recent sports movies -- I always thought I was : heroism and music in three women's films.…”
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Disturb : and others
[United States] : [CreateSpace], 2010Table of Contents: “…-- Piranha pool -- A newbie's guide to Thrillerfest -- Inspector Oxnard -- One night only -- Could Stephanie Plum really get car insurance? -- Cozies or hardboiled ? -- Addiction -- Weigh to go.…”
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The Marx Brothers as social critics : satire and comic nihilism in their films
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2009Table of Contents: “…-- The seven-cent nickel -- A job in the mint -- A standing army -- Dear old ivy -- A coed with two pair of pants -- The whole wig -- It's tough on my suspenders -- Three hardboiled eggs -- Ice water in 318 -- The main hungerdunger -- Grand slam -- A very strange interlude -- A brace of woodpeckers -- Upside down -- Whim wham.…”
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Writing fiction.
Westport, Greenwood Press 1971Table of Contents: “…The hardboiled story -- Regional writing -- The elliptic story -- In general -- a reading list.…”
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Sanctuary : the corrected text
New York : Vintage Books, 1993
First Vintage International edition.Format: Book
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