The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction

by Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. and Ray B. Browne

Book Overview

Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879728159
• ISBN13: 9780879728151
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"