Talking about Detective Fiction
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Faber & Faber, 160 pages.
ISBN: 9780571253586
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre.
There are chapters on great American crime writers - the likes of Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. James also discusses many of her favourite famous detectives, from Sherlock Holmes to Philip Marlowe.
P.D. James presents a brief history of detective fiction and explores the literary techniques behind history's best crime writing.
Talking about Detective Fiction was originally published in 2009.
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