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  1. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: [2006]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson ; London

    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book... more

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    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book covers three main periods, the Early (1927-1955), the Transitional (1964-1977), and the Modern (1979-present)"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    ISBN: 9780786482399
    RVK Categories: HN 1310 ; HU 1818
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature; Kriminalroman; Englisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 298 Seiten)
  2. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: [2006]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson ; London

    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book... more

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    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book covers three main periods, the Early (1927-1955), the Transitional (1964-1977), and the Modern (1979-present)"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    ISBN: 0786425814; 9780786425815
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    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature; Englisch; Kriminalroman
    Scope: VIII, 298 Seiten
  3. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: [2006]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson ; London

    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book... more

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    "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book covers three main periods, the Early (1927-1955), the Transitional (1964-1977), and the Modern (1979-present)"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 0786425814; 9780786425815
    RVK Categories: HN 1310 ; HU 1818
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature; Englisch; Kriminalroman
    Scope: VIII, 298 Seiten
  4. The fiction of George Gissing
    a critical analysis
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C [u.a.]

    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world... more

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    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world Gissing knew firsthand"--Provided by publisher

     
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    ISBN: 9780786435098; 0786435097
    RVK Categories: HL 2945
    Subjects: Roman
    Other subjects: Gissing, George (1857-1903)
    Scope: VII, 228 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index
  5. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 0786425814; 9780786425815
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    RVK Categories: HN 1310
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature
    Scope: VIII, 298 S., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 281 - 287
  6. Meditations on America
    John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series and other fiction
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio

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  7. Meditations on America
    John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series and other fiction
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohiuo

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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 0879726636; 0879726644
    Other subjects: Array; Array; National characteristics, American, in literature; Private investigators in literature; McGee, Travis (Fictitious character)
    Scope: 192 p, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188) and index
  8. The fiction of George Gissing
    a critical analysis
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world... more

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    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world Gissing knew firsthand"--Provided by publisher.

     
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    ISBN: 9780786435098
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    Subjects: Roman
    Other subjects: Gissing, George (1857-1903); Gissing, George (1857-1903)
    Scope: VIII, 228 S.
  9. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 0786425814; 9780786425815
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    RVK Categories: HN 1310
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature
    Scope: VIII, 298 S., 23 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 281 - 287
  10. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C

    Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Poe, Conan Doyle, and the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel; Early Period; 2. History as Recovery; 3. The Creation of Character; 4. Violence: Direction and Control; 5. Decaying Worlds; 6. Work: Discourse and... more

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    Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Poe, Conan Doyle, and the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel; Early Period; 2. History as Recovery; 3. The Creation of Character; 4. Violence: Direction and Control; 5. Decaying Worlds; 6. Work: Discourse and Danger; 7. Sexuality and Discovery; 8. Friendship: The Absent Theme; Transitional Period; 9. Character in Conflict; 10. Pervasive Violence; 11. Expanded Space; 12. Needed Work; 13. Love and Sexuality; 14. Friendship: Faint Stirrings; 15. The Quality of Change: Individual Lives and Social Transformation; Modern Period; 16. Character and Wholeness. 17. Violence: Echoes and Conversions18. Better Places; 19. Necessary Work; 20. Sexuality and Diversity; 21. Surviving Friendship; 22. Multiples of Change; 23. The Uses of Memory; 24. Lies and Deceit: Family; 25. Conclusion: Expanding the Word; Bibliography; Index. "This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book covers three main periods, the Early (1927-1955), the Transitional (1964-1977), and the Modern (1979-present)"--Provided by publisher

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780786482399; 0786482397
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 298 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  11. Meditations on America
    John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series and other fiction
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohiuo

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  12. The fiction of George Gissing
    a critical analysis
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world... more

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    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world Gissing knew firsthand"--Provided by publisher Gissing and the imagination -- Pt. 1: The social imagination -- The triumph of mediocrity: Gissing's New Grub Street -- Deception, violence, and the criminal act -- New people: Gissing's rising classes -- The loss of innocence: progress, science, and technology -- The failed triangle: marriage, family, and children -- Politics, work, and business -- Education old and new -- Pt. 2: The personal imagination -- Money as language and idea -- Discovery and disintegration: figures of disquiet -- Romantic love, sexuality, and convention -- The dubious sex: women in George Gissing's fiction -- Conflicted identities: the individual and society -- Pt. 3: The cultural imagination -- Against the modern: rural idylls and urban realities -- Gissing and Morley Roberts: the life of writing in Late-Victorian England -- Nationalism, imperialism, and the idea of England -- Religion and morality -- The natural world in human time -- The Late-Victorian detective -- Frontiers, edges, and boundaries.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780786435098; 0786435097
    Other identifier:
    9780786435098
    RVK Categories: HL 2945
    Subjects: Gissing, George;
    Other subjects: Gissing, George (1857-1903); Gissing
    Scope: VIII, 228 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  13. Connecting detectives
    the influence of 19th century sleuth fiction on the early hard-boileds
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: c 2015
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC

    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of... more

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    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780786477715; 0786477717
    RVK Categories: HU 1818 ; HL 1310
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American; Detectives in literature; Private investigators in literature; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery stories, English / History and criticism
    Scope: VIII, 201 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  14. Connecting detectives
    the influence of 19th century sleuth fiction on the early hard-boileds
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC

    "A literary examination of the influence of 19th-century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Poe, Dickens, Collins and Conan Doyle to the development of detective series. Authors from the... more

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    "A literary examination of the influence of 19th-century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Poe, Dickens, Collins and Conan Doyle to the development of detective series. Authors from the transitional and modern periods are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers"--

     
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  15. Cracking the hard-boiled detective
    a critical history from the 1920s to the present
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  McFarland & Comp., Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9780786425815; 0786425814
    RVK Categories: HN 1310 ; HU 1818
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Crime in literature
    Scope: VIII, 298 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 281 - 287
  16. The fiction of George Gissing
    a critical analysis
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world... more

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    "This work approaches Gissing's novels as purely imaginative works of art. By analyzing important themes in his novels and recognizing the power of the artist's imagination, the author reveals how Gissing's novels present a lived feel of the world Gissing knew firsthand"--Provided by publisher Gissing and the imagination -- Pt. 1: The social imagination -- The triumph of mediocrity: Gissing's New Grub Street -- Deception, violence, and the criminal act -- New people: Gissing's rising classes -- The loss of innocence: progress, science, and technology -- The failed triangle: marriage, family, and children -- Politics, work, and business -- Education old and new -- Pt. 2: The personal imagination -- Money as language and idea -- Discovery and disintegration: figures of disquiet -- Romantic love, sexuality, and convention -- The dubious sex: women in George Gissing's fiction -- Conflicted identities: the individual and society -- Pt. 3: The cultural imagination -- Against the modern: rural idylls and urban realities -- Gissing and Morley Roberts: the life of writing in Late-Victorian England -- Nationalism, imperialism, and the idea of England -- Religion and morality -- The natural world in human time -- The Late-Victorian detective -- Frontiers, edges, and boundaries.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780786435098; 0786435097
    Other identifier:
    9780786435098
    RVK Categories: HL 2945
    Subjects: Gissing, George;
    Other subjects: Gissing, George (1857-1903); Gissing
    Scope: VIII, 228 S., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  17. The Fiction of George Gissing
    A Critical Analysis
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson

    Most of George Gissing's 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing's frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting with Workers in the Dawn (1880), almost all of... more

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    Most of George Gissing's 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing's frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting with Workers in the Dawn (1880), almost all of Gissing's fictional works are set in his own time period of late-Victorian England, and five of his first six novels focus on the working-class poor that Gissing would have encountered frequently during his early writing career. While most recent criticism focuses on Gissing's works as biographical narratives, this work approaches Gissing's novels as

     
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    The Fiction of George Gissing; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Gissing and the Imagination; Part One: The Social Imagination; 2. The Triumph of Mediocrity:; 3. Deception, Violence, andthe Criminal Act; 4. New People; 5. The Loss of Innocence; 6. The Failed Triangle; 7. Politics, Work, and Business; 8. Education Old and New; Part Two: The Personal Imagination; 9. Money as Language and Idea; 10. Discovery and Disintegration:; 11. Romantic Love, Sexuality, and Convention; 12. The Dubious Sex; 13. Conflicted Identities; Part Three: The Cultural Imagination

    14. Against the Modern15. Gissing and Morley Roberts; 16. Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Idea of England; 17. Religion and Morality; 18. The Natural World in Human Time; 19. The Late-Victorian Detective; 20. Frontiers, Edges, and Boundaries; 21. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
  18. Connecting Detectives
    The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson

    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of... more

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    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th c

     
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    ISBN: 9780786477715
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    Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Plot and Setting; 1. Frontiers and Boundaries; 2. Morality and Immorality: Interconnections in the Detective Narrative; 3. Punishment and Its Effects; 4. Past Secrets and Present Solutions; Part II: Character and Reason; 5. Surviving Power: Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and the Hard-Boiled Detective; 6. Private and Public Detectives; 7. Decision and Control; 8. Foreigners and Foreign Places; Part III: Theme; 9. Undoing the Ties That Bind: Family from Poe to the Hard-Boiled Detective

    10. Variations on a Theme: Individualism and the Detective11. Politics and the Detective; 12. Money and Motive; 13. The Paradox of Change; Part IV: Form and Figurative Language; 14. Traditional Mixes: Form and Character; 15. Gothic, Melodrama and Realism; 16. Allusion and Allegory; 17. Sound and Silence; 18. Permanence and Impermanence; Conclusion: Dominant Images: Poe, Conan Doyle, Hammett and Chandler; Works Cited; Index
  19. Connecting detectives
    the influence of 19th century sleuth fiction on the early hard-boileds
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: c 2015
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC

    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of... more

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    A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780786477715; 0786477717
    RVK Categories: HU 1818 ; HL 1310
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American; Detectives in literature; Private investigators in literature; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery stories, English / History and criticism
    Scope: VIII, 201 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  20. Meditations on America
    John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series and other fiction
    Author: Moore, Lewis D.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohiuo

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