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It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) 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...

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Most comprehensive, accessible and readable guides to noir crime fiction -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
As one of the leading experts of crime fiction, Barry Forshaw's Historical Noir marks the most recent entry in his Noir series, tracing the history of the sub-genre of crime fiction set in the past * Dark Arts Journal *
A very worthy addition to this great series * Crime Squad *
The latest in the Pocket Essentials guides to crime writing, Historical Noir, is a useful and entertaining addition to the series -- Paul Burke * Nudge *
A lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre * Crime Readers Association *

Historical Noir

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      Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
      Published 25 April 2018
      ISBN-13 9780857301352
      978-0857301352
      ISBN-10 0857301357
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) 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...

      Trade Review
      Most comprehensive, accessible and readable guides to noir crime fiction -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
      As one of the leading experts of crime fiction, Barry Forshaw's Historical Noir marks the most recent entry in his Noir series, tracing the history of the sub-genre of crime fiction set in the past * Dark Arts Journal *
      A very worthy addition to this great series * Crime Squad *
      The latest in the Pocket Essentials guides to crime writing, Historical Noir, is a useful and entertaining addition to the series -- Paul Burke * Nudge *
      A lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre * Crime Readers Association *

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