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The 17 critical essays, most by British scholars, examine the works of Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley, Dorothy Sayers, lesser known writers, and the new feminist thrillers. Part of a series on popular literature. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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This volume contains seventeen critical essays on a selection of the most influential and the most interesting suspense writers of the twentieth century. From the glittering world of Raffles to the domestic terror of The Magic Cottage, and from the heroics of Bulldog Drummond to the dogged pursuits of Miss Marple, this volume traces a variety of suspense writers: those well known, such as Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley or Dorothy L. Sayers, and those less well known: Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Jenkins and the 'new was' feminist thriller writers of today and the half-forgotten women detective writers of the early part of this century. Also included is Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense in a Hollywood setting, and the work of Cornell Woolrich, gothic writing in American setting.

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