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'Murder Will Out': The Detective in Fiction from Poe to the Present

T. J. Binyon (author)

Paperback Published on: 19/03/2009

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Synopsis

'No-one has approached the vast, continuing corpus of detective fiction in quite this way before.' Financial Times

What is it that has always made the detective such a popular figure in fiction? Why are we always so seduced by the search to discover 'whodunit'? And how far back does this fascination go?

Following the trail of the detective - from Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the time of this book's first publication in 1989 - T J Binyon's brilliant history explores one of fiction's most enduring characters, in all its many guises. Murder Will Out is an essential guide for anyone who has ever been gripped by a good crime novel and wants to investigate further.