The Detective as Historian

The Detective as Historian
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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780879728816
ISBN-13 : 0879728817
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Book Synopsis The Detective as Historian by : Ray B. Browne

Download or read book The Detective as Historian written by Ray B. Browne and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.


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