100 American Crime Writers - (Crime Files) by S Powell (Hardcover)

About the Book

"From Edgar Allan Poe to James Ellroy, crime writers have provided some of the most popular, controversial, acclaimed and disturbing works in American literature. 100 American Crime Writers provides critical biographies of some of the greatest and most important crime writers in American history. Both an important scholarly work and an enjoyable read accessible to a wider audience, this addition in Palgrave's Crime Files series includes discussion of the lives of key crime writers, as well as analysis of the full breadth and scope of the genre - from John Dickson Carr's Golden Age detective stories to Raymond Chandler's hardboiled Philip Marlowe novels, Ed McBain's 87th Precinct police procedurals to Megan Abbott's modern day reimagining of the femme fatale. Drawing on some of the best and most recent scholarship in the field, all of the key writers and themes of the genre are discussed in this comprehensive study of one of the most fascinating and popular of literary genres. "--

Book Synopsis

100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

Review Quotes

"100 American Writers is a book that I think will appeal to a significant number of readers. ... there is a bibliography and a useful list of suggested further reading. ... For anyone seeking an introduction to American crime fiction, this book will make a very good choice." (Martin Edwards, Do You Write Under Your Own Name, Doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.de, August, 2015)

About the Author

DELPHINE M. CINGAL Assistant Professor at Panthéon-Assas-Paris 2, France TIM FOSTER Teacher of English and Film Studies at a school in Bedfordshire, UK DAVID HERING Teacher at the University of Liverpool, UK MEGAN HOFFMAN PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK MARTIN LIGHTENING Freelance documentary cameraman SUSAN MASSEY PhD graduate from the University of St Andrews, UK ESME MISKIMMIN Teacher at the University of Liverpool, UK JURI NUMMELIN Finnish writer, editor and translator CHRIS PAK PhD candidate specialising in science fiction at the University of Liverpool, UK J. KINGSTON PIERCE Journalist and author DIANA POWELL PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, UK CHRIS ROUTLEDGE Freelance writer, editor and academic STEVE SCOTT Retired commercial banker living in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA MAUREEN SUNDERLAND Independent scholar