Vida de Dickens

Fondo Carmen Bravo-Villasant

Crime fiction, South Africa : a critical introduction

Crime fiction is an emergent category in South African literary studies. This introduction positions South African crime fiction and its scholarship in a global lineage of crime and detective fiction. The survey addresses the question of its literary status as ‘highbrow’ or ‘lowbrow’. It also identifies and describes two distinct sub-genres of South African crime fiction: the crime thriller novel; and the literary detective novel. The argument is that South African crime fiction exhibits a unique capacity for social analysis: a capacity which is being optimised by authors and interrogated by scholar

Charles Dickens

xx.154 hal.;20 c

Santo Tomás de Aquino

Ten dous debuxos de Dn. Xaim

Father Brown detective stories

xiii, 112 p.; 19 cm

Father Brown, Selected sories

Father Brown, a small, round Catholic priest with a remarkable understanding of the criminal mind, is one of literature's most unusual and endearing detectives, able to solve the strangest crimes in a most fascinating manner. This collection draws from all five Father Brown books, and within their remarkable range these stories contain as much wisdom as they do wonder

Father Brown Detective Stories

xiii.112 hal.;20 c