This Volume Contains Fourteen Essays By Authoritative Academics Studying The Field Of Mystery And Detection Fiction. The Essays All Concentrate On The First Novels In Established Series, Analyzing Ways In Which The Opening Books Of The Series Do Or Do Not Create Patterns Followed In Succeeding Novels. Some Of The Essays Comment In Detail On The Formulae Adopted By The Particular Author, Setting The Earliest In A Context. Others Concentrate More On Analysis Of The Subject Novel Itself, Indicating More Briefly How That Book Relates To Those Which Follow It. Some Discuss Such Questions As What Exactly Is The First Novel In Some Rather Complex Series And In Several Cases More Than One Initiating Book Is Discussed. No Attempt Has Been Made To Include Consideration Of A Representative Sample Of The Various Types Of Detective Series, But A Variety Of Authors Is Covered, Ranging From Such Classics As Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, And Dorothy L. Sayers, To More Recent Authors Like James Mcclure, Joseph Hansen, And Colin Dexter. Male And Female Writers And Detectives, Gay And Straight, Majority And Minority Detectives Are Included, And Traditional, Hard-boiled, Police-procedural Subgenres Are Represented. Dorothy L. Sayers : From First To Last / Kathleen Gregory Klein -- The First Campion Novel / Paula M. Woods -- Reading Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Series : The Thirteen Problems / Marty S. Knepper -- Enter The Fat Man : Rex Stout's Fer-de-lance / Frederick Isaac -- Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn / Marykay Mahoney -- The First Six In A Series : Nicholas Blake / Mary P. Freier -- Mike Shayne : A Series Starts And Restarts / Sharon A. Russell -- Cop Hater : Gateway To The 87th Precinct / George N. Dove -- Elizabeth Linington -- A.k.a. Dell Shannon : Creation Of A Formula / Mary Jean Demarr -- P.d. James's Adam Dalglish Series / Joan G. Kotker -- The Professor Tells A Story : Kate Fansler / Lois A. Marchino -- Fadeout : Dave Brandstetter's First Case / Landon Burns -- And The First Shall Be Last : James Mcclure's Kramer And Zondi Series / Don Wall -- Paradigm Established, Paradigm Surpassed : Colin Dexter's Last Bus To Woodstock / William Reynolds. Edited By Mary Jean Demarr. Includes Bibliographical References.

DeMarr, Mary Jean, 1932-

Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

United States, United States of America

Bowling Green, Ohio, c1995

1, PS, 1995

April 1995

March 1995

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Includes bibliographical references.

This volume contains fourteen essays by authoritative academics studying the field of mystery and detective fiction. The essays all concentrate on the first novels in established series, analyzing ways in which the opening books of the series do or do not create patterns followed in succeeding novels.

227 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references

2023-06-28