Leroy Panek

Autor(a) de Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story

13 Works 96 Membros 18 Reviews

About the Author

English professor Leroy Lad Panek teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at McDaniel College. He lives in Westminster, Maryland

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Obras de Leroy Panek

Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 (1979) 12 cópias

Special Branch: The British Spy Novel (1981) 9 cópias

An introduction to the detective story (1987) 8 cópias

The Origins of the American Detective Story (2006) 7 cópias

The American Police Novel: A History (2003) 5 cópias

Probable Cause: Crime Fiction in America (1990) 5 cópias

After Sherlock Holmes: The Evolution of British and American Detective Stories, 1891-1914 (2014) 5 cópias

The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891 (2017) 4 cópias

Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to the Maltese Falcon (2004) 4 cópias

New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s (2000) 4 cópias

British mystery (1990) 4 cópias

Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology (2008) 3 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo: Panek, LeRoy
Data de nascimento: 1943-01-26
Sexo: male
Ocupação: professor

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New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s de LeRoy Lad Panek

Didn't review when read

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ritaer | Jun 15, 2022 |

The Origins of the American Detective Story de LeRoy Lad Panek

detective fiction from Poe to just before Golden Age, rise of detective rather than amateur, police, lawyer or others as heroes

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ritaer | Aug 4, 2021 |

The Essential Elements of the Detective Story,… de LeRoy Panek

Considers the history of detective stories published in the US prior to the rise of Sherlock Holmes. Many took the form of memoirs of doctors. lawyers or detectives. A number were written by women or with female protagonists. Good reference for student of the genre.

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ritaer | Jan 18, 2018 |

Watteau's shepherds: The detective novel in Britain,… de LeRoy Panek

This is a series of essays on the 'writers of the "Golden Age" of Anglo-American mysteries, trying to define the characteristics of the genre more concretely than has been done in the past. After a general introduction on the defining qualities of the mysteries of the period, it shifts to a sequence of discussions of individual writers --E.C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, A.A. Milne (for The Red House Mystery) Dorothy Sayers, Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Anthony Berkeley), Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, and Ngaio Marsh. I don't always agree with it, but the writer knows the books of that era well and has clever things to say about them.… (mais)

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antiquary | 1 outra resenha | Oct 22, 2016 |

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