Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives (Continuum Literary Studies)

by NeilMcCaw (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $226.56

  With reference to television series such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , Inspector Morse , and Midsomer Murders , this title uses adaptation as the basis for an exercise in later twentieth-century cultural history, illustrating the fundamental role detective fictions play in popular beliefs about the nature of crime and Englishness.