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

by T. J. Binyon (Author)

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  1990

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  What is it that has always made the detective such a popular figure in fiction? Why are we invariably seduced by the search to discover whodunit ? and how far back does this fascination go?. T.J. Binyon follows the trail of the detective in fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the present day; yet this book is a history not of a type of fiction, but of a type of character - the fictional detective. This approach reflects two unusual aspects of the genre: not only did it grow out of the character, rather than vice versa, but also the characters - such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot - have frequently overshadowed their authors.