Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction - Couverture souple

Earwaker, Julian; Becker, Kathleen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854108212 ISBN 13 : 9781854108210

Editeur : Aurum Press, 2002

Synopsis

Great writers of crime fiction not only create memorable detective heroes, they also firmly establish them in a setting. The home counties town of "King's Markham", for example, is the perfect "patch" for Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford and Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael is as inseparable from the cloisters of medieval Shrewsbury as John Harvey's D.I. Resnick is from the mean streets of modern Nottingham. Addicts of the British detective story should enjoy this gazetteer. With it in their hands they can navigate the streets and alleyways of Edinburgh where Sherlock Holmes sprang to life in Conan Doyle's imagination and where Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus now tracks down villainy (and a dram or two). They can explore the desolate coast of East Anglia, a favoured venue for P.D. James' Adam Dagliesh and the home of Margery Allingham, who also set many of the adventures of her enigmatic Albert Campion amid the Essex marshlands. In Oxford, they can tread in the footsteps of Inspector Morse or pay homage at the site where, in "Gaudy Night", Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey embraced - at long last - his Harriet Vane. The many black and white and colour photographs evoke the atmosphere and history of these and many other settings with which hundreds of thousands of readers will already be familiar in their imaginations. Based on interviews with leading writers and extensive research, and fuelled by the authors' enthusiasm for Britain's most popular literary form, this book should be an interesting read for all crime addicts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julian Earwaker and Kathleen Becker, long-term 'partners in crime', have previously collaborated on Literary Norfolk: An Illustrated Companion. They work as freelance writers, journalists and translators, dividing their time between Ipswich and Cologne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurum Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854108212
• ISBN 13: 9781854108210
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible