Making the Detective Story American : Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930

Van Dover, J.K.

McFarland & Co Inc（2010/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 231 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786448951
• DDC分類 813

Full Description

This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fiction in startling and rejuvenating directions. Topics covered include the highbrow detective, the ethnic detective, the exploitation of contemporary sensations, and the exploitation of women.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Preface     

1. Introduction: The Detective and the 1920s     

2. He Used to Be a Highbrow: Intellect, Taste, and the Detection of Crime in the 1920s     

3. No Chinaman: Ethnicity and the Detective in the 1920s     

4. Ripped from the Headlines: Translating Sensational Crime Fact into Popular Crime Fiction in the 1920s     

5. Enterprising, Flippant, Hard: Young American Women in Detective Fiction of the 1920s     

Appendix A: Three Brief Biographies

Oh Yes, There Was a Man Named Earl Derr Biggers     

Willard Wright (S.S. Van Dine)     

Dashiell Hammett     

Appendix B: Mystery and Detection Bestsellers, 1925-1935     

Appendix C: Films Based on the Works of Earl Derr Biggers, S.S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index