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Icons of mystery and crime detection : from sleuths to superheroes / Mitzi M. Brunsdale.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Greenwood iconsPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.Description: 2 v. (xiv, 780 p.) : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0313345309 (2 vol. set : alk. paper)
  • 0313345325 (v. 1, hard copy)
  • 0313345341 (v. 2, hard copy)
  • 9780313345302 (2 vol. set : alk. paper)
  • 9780313345326 (v. 1, hard copy)
  • 9780313345340 (v. 2, hard copy)
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Contents:
v. 1. Batman: the Herculean detective -- James Bond: the byronic spy -- Father Brown: the clerical sleuth -- Charlie Chan: "the first nonwhite popular detective" -- Agatha Christie: creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth -- Inspector Clouseau: the detective as buffoon -- Columbo: the disheveled detective -- Dragnet: television's most famous police drama -- Nancy Drew: the girl detective -- Jessica Fletcher: the mystery writer snoop -- Mike Hammer: a very imperfect, far from gentle knight -- Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop -- v. 2. Tony Hillerman : creator of ethnic detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee -- Alfred Hitchcock : cinemas master of suspense -- Sherlock Holmes : the genius detective -- Inspector Jules Maigret : the gallic gumshoe -- Philip Marlowe : the detective as knight errant -- Perry Mason : the legal sleuth : Edgar Allan Poe : The father of detective fiction -- Dorothy L. Sayers : creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic sleuth -- Sam Spade : the hard-boiled private eye -- Dick Tracy : the first comic strip police detective hero -- Nero Wolfe : the armchair sleuth -- Zorro : the masked avenger.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 809.3872 B899 v.1 Available 33111006303362
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 809.3872 B899 v.2 Available 33111006303305
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Batman: the Herculean detective -- James Bond: the byronic spy -- Father Brown: the clerical sleuth -- Charlie Chan: "the first nonwhite popular detective" -- Agatha Christie: creator of Hercule Poirot, the foreign sleuth, and Miss Jane Marple, the elderly sleuth -- Inspector Clouseau: the detective as buffoon -- Columbo: the disheveled detective -- Dragnet: television's most famous police drama -- Nancy Drew: the girl detective -- Jessica Fletcher: the mystery writer snoop -- Mike Hammer: a very imperfect, far from gentle knight -- Dirty Harry: the vigilante cop -- v. 2. Tony Hillerman : creator of ethnic detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee -- Alfred Hitchcock : cinemas master of suspense -- Sherlock Holmes : the genius detective -- Inspector Jules Maigret : the gallic gumshoe -- Philip Marlowe : the detective as knight errant -- Perry Mason : the legal sleuth : Edgar Allan Poe : The father of detective fiction -- Dorothy L. Sayers : creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic sleuth -- Sam Spade : the hard-boiled private eye -- Dick Tracy : the first comic strip police detective hero -- Nero Wolfe : the armchair sleuth -- Zorro : the masked avenger.

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