Dlb 77: British Mystery Writers, 1920-1939

by Bernard Benstock

This is the second DLB volume of a planned series on British mystery writers. Because there has been little scholarship devoted to individual mystery writers except for the most prominent, this volume is particularly useful as a stimulus to further study. Mystery fiction arose in Britain when the middle 19th-century phenomenon of middle-culture literary art blurred the distinction between serious literature and popular fiction. With prose fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810345552
• ISBN13: 9780810345553
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.