{"product_id":"the-crime-novel-a-deviant-genre-paperback","title":"The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTony Hilfer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that \"right\" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the \"hero\" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in \u003ci\u003eThe Crime Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHilfer provides in-depth analyses of novels by Georges Simenon, Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, and Jim Thompson. He also treats such British novelists as Patrick Hamilton, Shelley Smith, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, as well as the American novelists Cornell Woolrich, John Franklin Bardin, James M. Cain, and Fredric Brown. In addition, he defines the distinctions between the American crime novel and the British, showing how their differences correspond to differences in American and British detective fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis well-written study will appeal to a general audience, as well as teachers and students of detective and mystery fiction. For anyone interested in the genre, it offers valuable suggestions of \"what to read next.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9.01 x 5.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42375769555079,"sku":"9780292711365","price":35.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6f0e4a3e0aca298cc6bcad16f1d951ac.webp?v=1740557263","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-crime-novel-a-deviant-genre-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}