Bloody Murder-History of Western Detective Novels (Chinese Edition)

The book describes the whole of detective story in details, exploring the formative situation, development, reasons for attracting readers and characters of the main writers, which is an excellent reasoning history. Different from some chronicles, it regards time as the line and schools as the outline. The author has a very clear view of the development of thesis type of literature. Apart from describing the history, the author makes simple and profound comments. In the meanwhile, it brings about the authoritative viewpoints of the detective novels, criminal novels, police programming novels, spy novels, adventuring novels and leisure novels in the recent 3 centuries, which introduce many works and writers ignored or forgotten by the world. Arthur Konan Conan knight, Agatha Christie, Derbyshire Hamit, Dorothy L. Sayers and other names of famous persons who have created the lovable criminal literature works are also elaborated in details in the book.