The art of detective fiction

Warren Chernaik, Martin Swales, Robert Vilain (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2000

In the hands of many of the great writers, the unravelling of mystery is only one strand within a complex project. Other things get unravelled, too - the belief in a rationally explicable world, in the beneficent, ordering force of culture and civilization.