In this slim volume originally commissioned by Oxford University's Bodleian Library, one of the doyennes of the field delves into the joys and arts of her chosen genre.
This book gives a literary master's view on the background of one of the most criticized, yet acclaimed genres, specifically the detective story: from "the Golden Age" to "HardBoiled". P.D. James, the Baroness of Holland Park and the Baroness of Detective Mysteries has never been in better form and continues, even into her nineties, to be the best practitioner of the mystery novel alive.
May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…
Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.
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