Examines the novels of three best-selling writers, looks at the formulas each developed, and explains why their series were successful

Murder in the Millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming

Literature & Fiction

Van Dover, J. Kenneth

United States

UNKNO

At Wolfe's Door: The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout (MILFORD SERIES, POPULAR WRITERS OF TODAY)

Borgo Pr

Hard cover 6x9, blue cloth, with dust jacket, three files front matter (14 pages) text (107 pages), and dust-jacket

At Wolfe's Door

James a Rock

<p>These are the Nero Wolfe novels of Rex Stout.</p>

At Wolfe's Door: The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout

James A. Rock & Co.

We Must Have Certainty surveys 160 years of the development of the genre (1841-2001) and then suggests some ways in which the genre and its development reflect some of the issues that have concerned writers and readers in America and Europe during that period. In particular, it examines the special nature of the world in which the fictional detective operates: a world constructed always to yield certain truth to the person who can read its signs correctly. The nature of these signs evolves with the genre, but while the surfaces of the world may change (from, for example, the Arcadian rhythms of a country house to the cacophony of the mean streets), what really happens in the world is always detectable.

We Must Have Certainty: Four Essays On The Detective Story

History & Criticism

Susquehanna Univ Pr

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