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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jerome Delamater; Ruth Prigozy
ISBN: 0313304637 9780313304637
OCLC Number: 36330838
Notes: "Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."
Description: x, 139 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Anne Riordan : Raymond Chandler's forgotten heroine / David W. Madden -- Order, error, and the novels of Raymond Chandler / Steven Weisenburger -- Raymond Chandler's pencil / James O. Tate -- Film in fiction : the real and the reel in Elmore Leonard / George Grella -- Aggravating the reader : the Harlem detective novels of Chester Himes / Gary P. Storhoff -- Murdering traditional assumptions : the Jewish-American mystery / Diana Arbin Ben-Merre -- Gender (de)mystified : resistance and recuperation in hard-boiled female detective fiction / Timothy Shuker-Haines and Martha M. Umphrey -- Bending the bow : The verdict (1946) and the Hollywood Victorian detective / Meri-Jane Rochelson -- Injustice of it all : Polanski's revision of the private eye genre in Chinatown / James Maxfield -- Miller's Crossing : the poetics of Dashiell Hammett / Katherine M. Restaino -- "Very simplicity of the thing" : Edgar Allan Poe and the murders he wrote / Jan Whitt -- Done to death? : formula and variation in Perry Mason / J. Dennis Bounds.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 63
Responsibility: edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy.

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