1950s detective novels

WebDetective Inspector Strafford and Doctor Quirke return in The Lock-Up, the third instalment of John Banville’s crime duo series. The story picks up where April in Spain finished and …
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Web0–9 The 31st of February (novel) A According to the Evidence After Dark, My Sweet (novel) The Alcoholics Alibi for a Judge B The Big Kill The Break (Giovanni novel) C A Chorus …
But in the 1930s and through the 1950s, a new type of private eye started popping up in American literature. These detectives were smart, but they were also …
WebCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain | They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy | Thieves Like Us, …
WebAn accomplished author of imaginative thrillers and police procedurals, Mina here draws on the actual case of 1950s Scottish mass murderer Peter Manuel and conjures up a …
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WebWhile hardboiled detective fiction emerged as early as the 1920s, the detective genre really took off in America in the 1930s-1950s. One of the most popular hardboiled detective …
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From late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines and books offered a seemingly endless churn of detective stories, adventure capers, crime dramas, Westerns, and …
50 Best Detective Books of All Time. Detective novels are such a great genre of books, filled with with quirky private investigators, dark back alleys, sultry …
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WebThis is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction . A–C Mario Acevedo (1955–) Douglas …
WebDolores Gordon-Smith (shelved 1 time as mystery-1900-to-1950) avg rating 3.98 — 327 ratings — published 2010 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 …
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