The Legendary Detective
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The Legendary Detective
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Author : John Walton
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
The Legendary Detective written by John Walton and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with History categories.
"I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don't want to take to the cops." That's Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of society, working in the darkness to shine a little light. The reality is a little different—but no less fascinating. In The Legendary Detective, John Walton offers a sweeping history of the American private detective in reality and myth, from the earliest agencies to the hard-boiled heights of the 1930s and '40s. Drawing on previously untapped archival accounts of actual detective work, Walton traces both the growth of major private detective agencies like Pinkerton, which became powerful bulwarks against social and labor unrest, and the motley, unglamorous work of small-time operatives. He then goes on to show us how writers like Dashiell Hammett and editors of sensational pulp magazines like Black Mask embellished on actual experiences and fashioned an image of the PI as a compelling, even admirable, necessary evil, doing society's dirty work while adhering to a self-imposed moral code. Scandals, public investigations, and regulations brought the boom years of private agencies to an end in the late 1930s, Walton explains, in the process fully cementing the shift from reality to fantasy. Today, as the private detective has long since given way to security services and armed guards, the myth of the lone PI remains as potent as ever. No fan of crime fiction or American history will want to miss The Legendary Detective.
The Magic Detective Peter Grant Rivers Of London As Opposed To Sherlock Holmes A Scandal In Bohemia
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Author : Katharina Lurz
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-07-04
The Magic Detective Peter Grant Rivers Of London As Opposed To Sherlock Holmes A Scandal In Bohemia written by Katharina Lurz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,1, University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), language: English, abstract: This paper foremost deals with the question in which ways the magic detective Peter Grant is differentiated from the non-magic detective, that is to say Sherlock Holmes, and in which ways the world of the protagonist is modified by the supernatural. Representatives for the two different approaches will be "A Scandal in Bohemia" (first published in 1891) as well as "A Study in Scarlet" (first published in 1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle and Ben Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London". Even though there are many iconic detectives that could have served the purpose, Sherlock Holmes was chosen as he is something like a patron saint of detective fiction. Priestman states on that matter that “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is the supreme 'character' of nineteenth-century detective fiction” (Detective Fiction 74). “A Scandal in Bohemia” was chosen here as it features a female culprit and it will be interesting to set the female role as presented in the short story against the one in the more recent novel by Aaronovitch. However, when referring to Sherlock Holmes, "A Study in Scarlet" will also be accounted for as this is the story where Watson first meets the legendary sleuth and thus the reader is described a lot of mannerisms of his through the eyes of the narrator. Peter Grant's story was selected as there is barely another novel at the time which features the supernatural next to the criminal in such a striking pattern. This assumption was made due to the fact that Peter Grant is a wizard and a police constable at the same time. Therefore it will be interesting to explore how this fact influences him and the world he lives in and also the distinction between the Victorian and the postmodern approach.
Famous Detective Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Famous Detective Stories written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
The Writings Of Mark Twain Pseud Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective And Other Stories Etc Etc
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Writings Of Mark Twain Pseud Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective And Other Stories Etc Etc written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.
The Bait A Kyra And Jake Investigation Book 3 Mills Boon Heroes
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Author : Carol Ericson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2021-05-13
The Bait A Kyra And Jake Investigation Book 3 Mills Boon Heroes written by Carol Ericson and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Fiction categories.
This time, it’s personal.
The Writings Of Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective Etc
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Writings Of Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective Etc written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Christian Science categories.
A Detective S Triumphs
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Author : Dick Donovan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
A Detective S Triumphs written by Dick Donovan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
The Detective S Eye
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Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective And Other Stories Etc Etc
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Detective And Other Stories Etc Etc written by Mark Twain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.
The Armchair Detective
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Armchair Detective written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Detective and mystery stories categories.