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100 American Crime Writers

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

Editors: Powell, Steven

DOI: 10.1057/9781137031662

ISBN: 978-1-349-35755-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 2, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Powell, Steven

Pages: 1 –5

[Any attempt to trace the genesis of American crime fiction is hampered by the need or desire to locate a source and date, which is inevitably open to revision and dispute. The oldest author to appear in this volume is Edgar Allan Poe (b.1809) whose ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841) is...
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Chapter 2‘Out of the Venetian Vase’: From Golden Age to Hard-boiled

Powell, Steven

Pages: 6 –10

[In ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, Raymond Chandler irreverently praises the innovation of his peer and rival Dashiell Hammett. With the Continental Op, Hammett had not so much invented a new structure as destroyed the old one. Crime fiction had become too obsessed with controlled environments — and...
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Chapter 3After These Mean Streets: Crime Fiction and the Chandler Inheritance

Powell, Steven

Pages: 11 –352

[James Ellroy begrudgingly acknowledges the enormous impact that Chandler’s work had on shaping and directing the genre for decades to come. By the time of his death in 1959, Chandler’s writing had been in decline for some years, but through his private detective Philip Marlowe, he had created...

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