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Anatomy Of Murder Identifies Three Basic Fictional Forms Dealing With Murder And Detection - Mystery, Detective, And Crime Fiction. It Attempts To Express Their Interrelations, To Define Their Differences, And To Explain Why These Subgenres Take The Forms They Do. Parts One And Two Distinguish Between Mystery And Detective In Terms Of Their Narrative Worlds And Their Treatment Of The Sign. Mystery Fiction Takes Place In A Centered World, One Whose Most Distinctive Characteristic Is Motivation (of Behavior And Signs). Built On A Faith In Foundations, It Insists Upon The Solidity Of Social Life, The Validity Of Social Conventions, And The Sanctity Of Signs. Mystery Assures Us That Motives Exist For Both Words And Deeds. Covering The Forms That Murder Fiction Takes, Anatomy Includes Analyses Of Texts By Doyle, Christie, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Highsmith, Jim Thompson, Thomas Harris, And Others. It Explains How Hybrids Such As The Police Procedural Or The Serial Killer Novel Can Be Produced By Grafting Aspects Of One Subgenre Onto Those Of Another. It Demonstrates That The Various Permutations Of Murder Fiction Make For Very Different Narrative Textures And Reading Experiences.--jac

Who reads Anatomy of Murder : Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction?

Author

Carl Darryl Malmgren

Publisher

Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780879728427

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Mystery

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24