ISBN: 1895086205 9781895086201

Category: Unavailable

Page count: 95

Mostly text-based with a few photographs, this book combines “excerpts from 66 detective novels by the genre’s leading lights (Agatha Christie, Martha Grimes, P. D. James and Ruth Rendell). [T]his textual patchwork reduces the genre to its formal conventions while spotlighting its cliché vernacular.” Characters names are reduced to an initial followed by “____” allowing characters exist between the various sources.