The American Police Novel: A History
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Author(s)Leroy Panek
PublisherMcfarland & Co Inc Pub
ISBN / ASIN0786416882
ISBN-139780786416882
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Sales Rank2,700,840
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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This work traces the emergence of the police officer as hero and the police novel as a significant popular genre, from the cameo appearances of police in detective novels of the 1930s and 1940s through the serial killer and forensic novels of the 1990s.
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