Publisher:
Cornell University Press, Ithaca
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In this book, the poet and...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In this book, the poet and critic David Lehman explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies - some famous (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to aficionados - with style, wit, and passion.
