The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks

Book Overview

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role-either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030749916
• ISBN13: 9783030749910
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"