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  • The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik

    The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader

    by J.K. Van Dover ...
    From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Truman Gumshoes

    The Postwar Detective Fiction of Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Wade Miller and Bart Spicer

    by 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 Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Detective and the Artist

    Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s

    by J.K. Van Dover ...
    This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel ... Read more

    $29.99 USD