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 | #2573306 in Books |  2006-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.08 x.56 x6.06l,.73 | File type: PDF | 227 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| "The majority of the police in fiction of the period are not only ignorant, pig-headed, witless, and stupid, but...look stupid"|By Mark Louis Baumgart|I've always been a fan of genre literature, starting off with science fiction, and moving into horror, mysteries and then into westerns. So growing up I read a tremendous amount of novels and collections from local libraries, an| |"Thorough...impressive. This volume offers an examination of the genre offered in no other study. Recommended." --Choice

"Critical...sure to fascinate passionate detective story enthusiasts." --Midwest Book

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Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn.

Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of America...

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