Introduction: the detective and the 1920s -- He used to be a highbrow: intellect, taste, and the detection of crime in the 1920s -- No Chinaman: ethnicity and the detective in the 1920s -- Ripped from the headlines: translating sensational crime fact...
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Introduction: the detective and the 1920s -- He used to be a highbrow: intellect, taste, and the detection of crime in the 1920s -- No Chinaman: ethnicity and the detective in the 1920s -- Ripped from the headlines: translating sensational crime fact into popular crime fiction in the 1920s -- Enterprising, flippant, hard: young American women in detective fiction of the 1920s -- Appendix A: three brief biographies -- Appendix B: mystery and detection bestsellers, 1925-1935 -- Appendix C: films based on the works of Earl Derr Biggers, S.S. van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett
Introduction: the detective and the 1920s -- He used to be a highbrow: intellect, taste, and the detection of crime in the 1920s -- No Chinaman: ethnicity and the detective in the 1920s -- Ripped from the headlines: translating sensational crime fact into popular crime fiction in the 1920s -- Enterprising, flippant, hard: young American women in detective fiction of the 1920s -- Appendix A: three brief biographies -- Appendix B: mystery and detection bestsellers, 1925-1935 -- Appendix C: films based on the works of Earl Derr Biggers, S.S. van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett.
