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60. The North American black novel: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.…
60. The North American black novel: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The English detective story: P. Dorothy James
Mystery writing: an overview
Detective fiction
Crime, solved by detective, deductive reasoning, clues.
Genre evolved. London Detection Club. Basic elements unchanged.
Vs mysteries (any mystery), crime (phycological state of criminal).
Origin: 1700s. Poe's
Murders in the Rue Morgue
. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: prototype of detectives.
Hard-boiled detective fiction
Violence, grotesque, black humor. 20s, 40s.
Detective: orderly society, order is restored. Hard-boiled: gangsters, chaos, violence.
Detective: country estates, honest police. Hard-boiled: city streets, corrupt police.
Difficult to gain recognition. Pulp magazines: Black Mask.
English detective story: PD James
Criminal police department: details.
Adam Dalgliesh (police detective and poet):
Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, Death of an Expert Witness, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, The Private Patient.
Cornelia Gray:
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, The Skull Beneath the Skin
All characters important. Well-structured, background information, strong image of characters and environment. Slow pace.
Innocent Blood, Children of Men
Life Peer in 1991. 2011:
Death Comes to Pemberly
. Dies in 2014.
Hard-boiled American fiction
Dashiell Hammett
Realistic vein. Tough heroes. Mean picture of American society. Bad language. Detective agency.
1923: Black Mask. Continental Op.
Red Harvest
: hard-boiled.
30s: Sam Spade, rough, solitary, outside the law.
The Maltese Falcon
The Glass Sky, The Thin Man
5 novels, 80 short stories. Most influential writers. Profound effect on cinema.
Raymond Chandler
Tried to imitate Hammett (dry, distant). Desperately romantic.
Black Mask. 1930:
The Big Sleep
. Philip Marlowe (prototype): solitary, hard but tender, cynic, disillusioned, good man.
Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, Poodle Springs
Falling of Marlowe. Adapted to cinema.