Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2Frank Northen Magill Salem Press, 1988 - 1748 pages Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. |
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Page 473
... narrative technique combines first - person observation , real- istically reconstructed conversations , and intricately plotted sequences of events . He is at his best when his characters tell their own stories , although the ...
... narrative technique combines first - person observation , real- istically reconstructed conversations , and intricately plotted sequences of events . He is at his best when his characters tell their own stories , although the ...
Page 581
... narrative and helps to create verisimilitude . Essentially a puzzle novel with gothic overtones , The Horizontal Man is a tour de force with an ingenious surprise ending . The spectacular climax exposes the criminal pathology of a ...
... narrative and helps to create verisimilitude . Essentially a puzzle novel with gothic overtones , The Horizontal Man is a tour de force with an ingenious surprise ending . The spectacular climax exposes the criminal pathology of a ...
Page 594
... narratives , for in his first novel , The Hospital , he created a discontinuous narrative style that became a kind of signature . Each chapter in The Hospital is presented in a first- person voice by a different character . In addition ...
... narratives , for in his first novel , The Hospital , he created a discontinuous narrative style that became a kind of signature . Each chapter in The Hospital is presented in a first- person voice by a different character . In addition ...
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