Historical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film and TV (Pocket Essentials (Paperback)) - Softcover

Barry Forshaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857301357 ISBN 13: 9780857301352

Publisher: Pocket Essentials, 2018

Synopsis

It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. And this astonishingly varied offshoot of the crime genre, as well as keeping bookshop tills ringing, is winning a slew of awards, notably the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger.

Barry Forshaw, one of the UK s leading experts on crime fiction, has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest with Ellis Peters crime-solving monk Brother Cadfael in the 1970s and Umberto Eco s The Name of the Rose in 1980 (with another monkish detective), but which has now taken readers to virtually every era and locale in the past.

As in such earlier entries in the series as Brit Noir, Nordic Noir, American Noir and Euro Noir, Forshaw has produced the perfect reader's guide to a fascinating field; every major writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted.

Praise for Barry Forshaw

'a wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf' - Shots Magazine

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Review:

"A wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf." --Shots Magazine on Brit Noir

"Forshaw's light tone and easy way with detail make for an accessible read. . . . Forshaw, a leading expert on all matters crime, has an eye for balancing the need to be thorough with the need to be concise and to the point." --nudge-book

About the Author:

Barry Forshaw is the author of American Noir, Brit Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and The Man Who Left Too Soon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0857301357
• ISBN 13: 9780857301352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192