Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction the locked room mystery / Michael Cook.

Author/creator Cook, Michael, 1946-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxiv, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
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Portion of title Locked room mystery
SeriesCrime files series
Contents Preface -- Edgar Allan Poe and the detective story narrative -- The locked compartment: Charles Dickens's 'The signalman' and enclosure in The railway mystery story -- The body in the library: reading the locked room in Anna Katherine Green's The filigree ball -- G. K. Chesterton's enclosure of orthodoxy in 'The wrong shape' -- The hollow text: illusion as theme in John Dickson Carr's The hollow man -- Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinth of detection -- The story is the writer himself: Paul Auster's locked room in City of glass -- The narrative of enclosure.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011011753
ISBN9780230276659 (alk. paper)

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