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Detective Thrillers Short Stories

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The thrill of the chase, the steely-eyed detective (either gentle or hard-boiled), the dark alleys and the double-cross, the unsolvable crime by a masterful criminal mind. This new title in the successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories series features chills and double twists, unexpected turns and private investigators with an eye for the unusual and contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from all over the world. Hardback Deluxe edition, printed on silver, matt laminated, gold and silver foil stamped, embossed. 25 illustrations

Additional information

Weight 792 g
Dimensions 153 × 234 mm
Author

B. Morris Allen

Author Bio

Lee Horsley (foreword) is a retired Reader in Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has written books on twentieth-century politics and literature, including Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (1995). During the last couple of decades she has written numerous articles and books about crime and detective fiction. Her publications include
The Noir Thriller (2001; 2009), Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2005), and (as co-editor) The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction (2010; paperback reissue 2020). Her strongest interest is in the hard-boiled and noir writing which came to dominate pulp publishing in the 1920s and which has, over the whole of the last century, continued to exert a hugely important and varied influence on both film and fiction.

ISBN

9781787557802

Number of Pages

480

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