Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Philip Marlowe, Perry Mason, Lord Peter Wimsey, Nero Wolfe, Mr. Moto, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer, Father Brown, Nick and Nora Charles--if not the most august figures in the world of fiction, the heroes and heroines of the detective novel are certainly some of the best loved and most memorable characters ever created. In 'Murder Will Out', T.J. Binyon follows the trail of these fictional detectives in their many guises--amateur sleuths, hard-boiled private eyes, police detectives, and an assortment of moonlighting priests, physicians, and lawyers--and provides an entertaining capsule history of the entire genre as well. He covers not only qall the old favorites, but also many forgotten gems, such as Max Carrados, a blind detective who could detect a false moustache from its "five yard aura of spirit gum," and Dr. John Thorndyke, an early successor to Sherlock Holmes, who could read Egyptian hieroglyphics and identify at a glance different species of duckweed. Binyon excells at charting the changing taste and fashion in crime-writing and the evolution of the form. For anyone who has ever been gripped by a good crime novel, and for those who never have but are tempted, 'Murder Will Out' is a delightful guide to who did what to whom, and how.

"Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Binyon, T.J.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Since the nineteenth century the detective has reigned as one of the most popular figures in fiction. The search to discover "whodunit" has seduced millions of readers into devouring page after page, as they try to anticipate how Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, Philip Marlowe, or one of fiction's many other renowned sleuths will crack the case. In "Murder Will Out," T.J. Binyon follows the trail of the detective in fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the present day. He offers a history not of a type of fiction, but of a type of character, revealing the fictional detective in all of his guises, ranging from the brilliant, eccentric amateur to the plodding, imperceptive policeman. Readers will meet the likes of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, S.S. Van Dine's Philo Vance, Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, K.C. Constantine's Mario Balzic, and countless others. This indispensable guide to who did what to whom, and how, will provide hours of pleasure for anyone who has ever been gripped by a good crime novel and wants to investigate further.

Swan Song

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hamilton

Twelve years after a student summer spent together in the country, English teacher Vanya Morozov, Tanya, a film director, idealistic Luyba, and Alik, a KGB agent, become caught up in a bureaucratic power struggle that spills over into the precincts of the Western intelligence agencies

Mystery

DOUBLEDAY

'Murder Will Out': The Detective in Fiction from Poe to the Present

British & Irish

FABER

1970s Moscow. Vanya Morozov is a teacher of English Literature. Not a party member, he views life and politics with a detached irony, and his main aim is to lead a quiet life. That is until his past starts to catch up with him. Twelve years earlier he and three other students spent an intense summer in the country. Since then their paths diverged - Tanya became a passionate film director; Alik an ambitious careerist and rising star in the KGB; and Lyuba, dreamy and idealistic, caught up in a strange underground movement. As a bureaucratic power struggle turns into something darker, the four are drawn together once again, as the Western Intelligence Agencies are alerted. As the action shifts from Moscow to Leningrad and finally to the snow-covered forests of the Volgoda regions, Vanya is forced to abandon his detachment and fight for his survival, and that of the girl he loves.

Pushkin is Russia’s greatest and best-loved poet: a romantic, enigmatic figure who, during a brief but turbulent life, changed Russian literature forever with his vital and passionate verse. Many of his works—including The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades, and his extraordinary novel in verse, Eugene Onegin—have become classics of world literature and are as exhilarating to read today as they were when first published. Now we have the first full biography in sixty years of this literary legend. Born in Moscow in 1799, he was descended on one side from an ancient noble family, on the other from a black African slave of Peter the Great. At the age of twenty he was expelled from St. Petersburg for his satirical writings. He remained in internal exile, under the direct supervision of the emperor, for the next seven years, and throughout his life attracted official disapproval for his political and religious beliefs—and for his many love affairs. In 1831, despite mounting debts from gambling and an insecure income, he married the eighteen-year-old Natalya Goncharova, who soon became recognized as one of the most beautiful women of St. Petersburg society. The attentions paid her by a Guards officer, the French émigré d’Anthès, roused Pushkin to fury. In the subsequent duel, fought on January 27, 1837, he was fatally wounded. He died in agony two days later. This superb, authoritative biography—winner of England’s prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize—frees the complex figure of Pushkin the man from the heroic simplicity of Pushkin the myth, making palpable the poet’s rare energy, talents, and spirit. Telling Pushkin’s story with exacting scholarship, elegant wit, and acute insight, T. J. Binyon gives us a revelation of the poet and the man.

Pushkin: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure of enduring romantic allure–fiery, restless, extravagant, a prodigal gambler and inveterate seducer of women. Having forged a dazzling, controversial career that cost him the enmity of one tsar and won him the patronage of another, he died at the age of thirty-eight, following a duel with a French officer who was paying unscrupulous attention to his wife. In his magnificent, prizewinning Pushkin, T. J. Binyon lifts the veil of the iconic poet’s myth to reveal the complexity and pathos of his life while brilliantly evoking Russia in all its nineteenth-century splendor. Combining exemplary scholarship with the pace and detail of a great novel, Pushkin elevates biography to a work of art.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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"Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction

"Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction

Swan Song

Swan Song

'Murder Will Out': The Detective in Fiction from Poe to the Present

Swan Song

Pushkin: A Biography

Pushkin: A Biography