The Detective As Historian

Ray Broadus Browne

Original title: The detective as historian

earliest edition we have, 2000 Bowling Green University Popular Press, 2000 paperback 310 pages

"The crime fiction examined here covers virtually all of recorded history - from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. The essays in this collection analyze and evaluate these works and demonstrate that they are not only gripping stories in their own right, but also the nerve center for historians of all stripes - from the professional to...

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The detective as historian hardcover · 2000 · Bowling Green State University Popular Press · 310 pages · 9780879728151
The Detective As Historian paperback · 2000 · Bowling Green University Popular Press · 310 pages · 9780879728168

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