Kurzbeschreibung
In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of "strip cartoon stories". But the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within the genre.
Synopsis
This edition contains a postscript which, besides dealing with the most recent work of British writers, including P.D. James and Ruth Rendell, considers American trends in crimewriting over the past decade. These are represented by writers such as James Ellroy and Thomas Harris, who, Symons says, enjoy the violence about which they write and want to rub our noses in blood and dirt. Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" and other books like Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, which treat the crime story as a metaphysical joke, also come in for sharp comment. But, like the earlier editions, this latest book is "meant for reading, argument, reasoned contradiction".
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