Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes

806 Pages·2010·6.059 MB·English

by  Mitzi M. Brunsdale

ICONS OF MYSTERY
AND CRIME DETECTION
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ICONS OF MYSTERY
AND CRIME
DETECTION
From Sleuths to Superheroes
VOLUME 1
Mitzi M. Brunsdale
GREENWOODICONS
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Contents
ListofPhotos ix
SeriesForeword xi
Preface xiii
Volume1
Batman:TheHerculeanDetective 1
JamesBond:TheByronicSpy 35
FatherBrown:TheClericalSleuth 71
CharlieChan:‘‘TheFirstNonwhitePopular
Detective’’ 103
AgathaChristie:CreatorofHerculePoirot,theForeignSleuth,
andMissJaneMarple,theElderlySnoop 135
InspectorClouseau:TheDetectiveasBuffoon 169
Columbo:TheDisheveledDetective 199
Dragnet:Television’sMostFamousPoliceDrama 229
NancyDrew:TheGirlDetective 259
JessicaFletcher:TheMysteryWriterSnoop 289
MikeHammer:AVeryImperfect,FarfromGentleKnight 321
DirtyHarry:TheVigilanteCop 351
Volume2
TonyHillerman:CreatorofEthnicDetectivesJoeLeaphorn
andJimChee 383
viii Contents
AlfredHitchcock:Cinema’sMasterofSuspense 415
SherlockHolmes:TheGeniusDetective 447
InspectorJulesMaigret:TheGallicGumshoe 483
PhilipMarlowe:TheDetectiveasKnightErrant 513
PerryMason:TheLegalSleuth 545
EdgarAllanPoe:TheFatherofDetectiveFiction 575
DorothyL.Sayers:CreatorofLordPeterWimsey,
theAristocraticSleuth 605
SamSpade:TheHard-BoiledPrivateEye 637
DickTracy:TheFirstComicStripPoliceDetectiveHero 669
NeroWolfe:TheArmchairSleuth 699
Zorro:TheMaskedAvenger 731
SelectedBibliography 761
Index 765
List of Photos
ChristianBaleasBatmaninBatmanBegins(page1).(cid:1)C DavidJames/Warner
Bros./BureauL.A.Collection/CORBIS.
Sean Connery as James Bond in From Russia, With Love (page 35). Used by
permission of the Motion Picture & Television Photo Archive. http://
www.mptvimages.com/
Book Cover, from Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton,
editedbyP.D.James,copyright(cid:1)C 2005(page71).Usedbypermissionof
theModernLibrary,adivisionofRandomHouse,Inc.
Warner OlanasCharlie Chan(page103). PhotobyHultonArchive/Stringer/
GettyImages.
AgathaChristie(page135).CourtesyofPAPhotos/Landov.
Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau (page 169). Photo by Evening Standard/
HultonArchive/GettyImages.
PeterFalkasColumbo(page199).(cid:1)C DouglasKirkland/CORBIS.
Dragnet (NBC) 1951–1959 (page 229). Shown: Ben Alexander (as Officer
Frank Smith), Jack Webb (as Sergeant Joe Friday). Courtesy of NBC/
Photofest.
Cover illustrationfrom The Secretof the Old ClockbyRobert D. SanSouci,
illustrated by James Ransome, published by Grosset & Dunlap (page
259).UsedbypermissionofthePenguinGroupUSA.
AngelaLansburyasJessicaFletcher(page289).CourtesyofCBS/Landov.
MickeySpillanepretendingtoslapanactress(page321).(cid:1)C Bettmann/CORBIS.
Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry (page 351). Photo by Warner Bros./Archive
Photos/GettyImages.
TonyHillerman(page383).PhotobyKellyCampbell.Usedwithpermission.