Tom Sawyer, detective : and other stories /

Mode of access: Internet.

Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etc., etc.;

Mode of access: Internet.

Who done it? : A guide to detective, mystery, and suspense fiction /

Mode of access: Internet.

The new woman, femininity and modernity in Margery Allingham's detective novels of the 1930s /

This thesis examines Death of a Ghost (1934), Flowers for the Judge (1935), Dancers in Mourning (1937), and The Fashion in Shrouds (1938), a group of detective novels by Margery Allingham that are differentiated from her other work by their generic hybridity. The thesis argues that the hybrid nature of this group of Campion novels enabled a highly skilled and insightful writer such as Allingham to negotiate the contradictory notions about the place of women that characterized the 1930s, and that in dOing so, she revealed the potential of one of the most popular and accessible genres, the detective novel of manners, to engage its readers in a serious cultural dialogue. The thesis also suggests that there is a connection between Allingham's exploration of modernity and femininity within these four novels and her personal circumstances. This argument is predicated upon the assumption that during the interwar period in England several social and cultural attitudes converged to challenge long-held beliefs about gender roles and class structure; that the real impact of this convergence was felt during the 1930s by the generation that had come of age in the previous decade-Margery Allingham's generation; and that that generation's ambivalence and confusion were reflected in the popular fiction of the decade. These attitudes were those of twentieth-century modernity--contradiction, discontinuity, fragmentation, contingency-and in the context of this study they are incorporated in a literary hybrid. Allingham uses this combination of the classical detective story and the novel of manners to examine the notion of femininity by juxtaposing the narrative of a longstanding patriarchal and hierarchical culture, embodied in the image of the Angel in the House, with that of the relatively recent rights and freedoms represented by the New Woman of the late nineteenth-century. Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social difference forms the theoretical foundation of the thesis's argument that through these conflicting narratives, as well as through the lives of her female characters, Allingham questioned the Hsocial myth" of the time, a prevailing view that, since the First World War, attitudes toward the appropriate role and sphere of women had changed.

Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /

My approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light the movement of horror's imaginary 'other' into the rational world of detection can be seen as not an abrupt breach of detection's realist conventions, but an almost seamless transition into symbolic spaces that point to the detective's primary function -- to make sense of the senseless. It is in this light that I explore the monster that is a detective as a symbol that is also a sense-maker, and a quintessential postmodern figure. I argue that the distinctions between monsters and 'others', and between popular narratives and postmodern religion have faded, culminating in a character that can not only model 'otherness' as an exemplary condition, but also provide strategies for modeling the form of active postmodern subjectivity that postmodern theorist Jim Collins' (1989) conceives of as heretical activity.

Possessed by the beast: subjectivity and agency in pictures in the dark and foxspell

The first book to assess critically mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognised scholars in the field, these thirteen original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of both classic and popular mysteries for children. This volume will be essential and stimulating reading for anyone with an interest in children's literature or in mystery fiction.

Patricia Highsmith: en jaque al género

Màster Oficial en Construcció i Representació d'Identitats Culturals (CRIC), Curs 2008-2009, Director Dr. Rodrigo Andrés González

Give 'em the ax /

Mode of access: Internet.

More mysteries /

Includes indexes.

Eleven possible cases /

The only girl at Overlook / Franklin Fyles -- A thing that glistened / Frank R. Stockton -- A lion and a lioness / Joaquin Miller -- The cheated Juliet / Q -- The mystic Krewe / Maurice Thompson --Strange adventures of a million dollars / Ingersoll Lockwood -- A lost day / Edgar Fawcett -- A tragedy of high explosives / Brainard Gardner Smith -- The bushwhacker's gratitude / Kirke Munroe -- The end of all / Nym Crinkle -- Shall he marry her? / Anna Katharine Green.

The mystery of Edwin Drood, and other stories.

On cover: Standard edition.

The mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and other stories,

The mystery of Witch-Face Mountain.--Taking the blue ribbon at the county fair.--The casting vote.

Muse of the department, A prince of Bohemia, and other stories,

On cover: Centenary edition

Short stories by present-day authors,

- Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident:The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (D) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.- Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.- Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny...