Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds
By Lewis D. Moore.
Published by McFarland.
Published 2014.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0786477717
ISBN-13: 978-0786477715
Description:
A
literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early
hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar
Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the
development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond
Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald,
Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the
transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also
discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.