Author: J.K. Van Dover

The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depressi...

This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fictionas detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. W...

This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transf...