Snobbery with violence
crime stories and their audience
Crime in literature
Reader-response criticism
Authors and readers
English Detective and mystery stories
Books and reading
History and criticism
History
'One of the most consistently busy of Britain's home industries during the past fifty years has been the manufacture of crime fiction. Some three hundred writers now contribute, more or less regularly, to the satisfaction of the public's appetite for books about murder, theft, fraud, espionage, arso…
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