This work explores John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, with special emphasis on MacDonald's examination of the conflicts and joys of twentieth-century American culture and society. MacDonald desc
Most of George Gissing's 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing's frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting
This critical study analyzes how the hard-boiled detective character has developed, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It focuses on three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927
"A literary examination of the influence of 19th-century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Poe, Dickens, Collins and Conan Doyle to the deve
