目录 现代侦探小说的起源与演变 Part One Prototypes of the Detective StoryCain and Abel(c950 BC) SolomonS Wisdom in Judgment(c625 BC) Susanna(692) The Dog and the Horse(1747) Part Two Works The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1 841),Edgar Allan Poe The Adventure ofthe Speckled Band(1892),Arthur Conan Doyle Cheating the Gallows(1 893),Israel Zangwill The Hammer ofGod(191 1),G.K Chesterton The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker(1 926),Dorothy L.Sayers A Premeditated Crime(1933),Witold Gombrowicz Tape-Measure Murder(1941),Agatha Christie Death and the Compass(1942),Jorge Luis Borges Ruffian’S Wife(1946).Dashiell Hammett “My Queer Dean!”(1953).Ellery Queen Murder,1990(1960),C B.Gilford Lady PaRerly’S Lover(1965),Charlotte MacLeod Galton and the Yelling Boys (1970), Hillary Waugh The Most Dangerous Man Alive (1980), EdwardD. Hoch Going through the Motions (1981), Lawrence Block Under Suspicion (2000), Clark Howard Part Three Se|ected Criticism On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Excerpt, 1827), Thomas De Quincey A Defense of Detective Stories (1901), G. K. Chesterton The Art of the Detective Story (1924), Richard Austin Freeman Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories (1928), S. S. Van Dine A Response to Edmund Wilson (1944), Bernard DeVoto Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? (1945)Edmund Wilson The Guilty Vicarage (1948), W. H. Auden Murder in Jest: Serial Killing in the Post-Modern Detective Story (1989), David Richter Appendix I Glossary Appendix II References and Further Reading Appendix III Chronology of Detective Fiction (1748-2000) Appendix IV Top 100 Crime Novels & Mystery Novels of All Time
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