Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Talking About Detective Fiction

P.D. James

3.77/5 (1777 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting.

Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 198 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0307592820

ISBN13:: 9780307592828

kindle Asin:: B002XYFUBU

Talking About Detective Fiction

P.D. James

3.77/5 (1777 ratings)

Read Download

P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting.

Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 198 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0307592820

ISBN13:: 9780307592828

kindle Asin:: B002XYFUBU

More Books

Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

Dorothy L. Sayers

East, West

Salman Rushdie

Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Hello America

J.G. Ballard

The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

Salman Rushdie

Terrorist

John Updike

Something to Tell You

Hanif Kureishi

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

Another Roadside Attraction

Tom Robbins