Comic Crime

by Earl F. Bargainnier (Editor)

Overview

The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879723842
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/01/1987
Edition description:	1
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Earl F. Bargainnier ( -1987) was Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the Popular Culture Association, he was the author of more than sixty articles and The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie. He also edited Twelve Englishmen of Mystery and co-edited Cops and Constables.