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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1990

ISBN (Hardback): 9780333475928

Full citation:

Clive Bloom (ed), Twentieth-century suspense, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Twentieth-century suspense

Contents

West is East

Nayland Smith's Sinophobia and Sax Rohmer's Bank balance

Clive Bloom

22-36

Fear's keen knife

suspense and the female detective, 1890–1920

Gwen Williams

37-50

A society of murderers run on sound conservative lines

the life and times of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond

Hans Bertens

51-68

Ordeal by analysis

Agatha Christie's The thirteen problems

Gary Day

80-96

Dorothy Sayers

The masks of lord Peter

Valérie Pitt

97-113

But one isn't murdered

Elizabeth Bowen's The little girls

Sandra Kemp

130-142

Fifty Million copies

the fiction of Dennis Wheatley

Christopher Bentley

143-160

The view from the rear window

the fiction of Cornell Woolrich

174-188

Grace under pressure

reading Alistair Maclean

Brian Docherty

203-224

Elizabeth Jenkins

perhaps the history woman

Ian MacKillop

225-236

The gentleman's excuse-me

the male apologist and the experience of realism in James Herbert's The magic cottage

Andrew R. Smith

255-270