Historical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Historical Fiction, Film and TV
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. And this astonishingly varied offshoot of the crime genre, as well as keeping bookshop tills ringing, is winning a slew of awards, notably the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger.
Barry Forshaw, one of the UK s leading experts on crime fiction, has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest with Ellis Peters crime-solving monk Brother Cadfael in the 1970s and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in 1980 (with another monkish detective), but which has now taken readers to virtually every era and locale in the past.
As in earlier entries in his Noir series, Forshaw has produced the perfect reader's guide to a fascinating field; every major writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted.
'Historical Noir covers crime novels (and their authors) set in ancient Greece and beyond to the 1950s ... what a splendid, varied bunch Forshaw provides' - Times
'A very worthy addition to this great series' - Crime Squad
Look out for the other books in Barry Forshaw's Noir series, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and American Noir, and for his latest book, Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide.
Barry Forshaw
Barry Forshaw is one of the UK's leading experts on crime fiction and film. Books include Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, Nordic Noir, Italian Cinema, American Noir and British Crime Film. Other work: Sex and Film, British Gothic Cinema, Euro Noir, Historical Noir, BFI War of the Worlds and the Keating Award-winners British Crime Writing Encyclopedia and Brit Noir. He writes for various newspapers, contributes Blu-ray extras, broadcasts, chairs events and edits Crime Time. crimetime.co.uk
Read more from Barry Forshaw
The Silence of the Lambs Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film and TV Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistorical Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film & TV Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Italian Cinema Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Historical Noir
Related ebooks
Dark Days and Much Darker Days: A Detective Story Club Christmas Annual Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Stories: classics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Trails of the Lake District and Cumbria Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Casefiles of Mr J. G. Reeder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eyes of Max Carrados Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hitchcock’s British Films Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Victorian Detective Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Scream in Soho Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRipper Hunter: Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Ghostly Company Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/57 best short stories - Vampire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorwich and Norfolk: Stone Age to the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSupernatural Sherlocks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Capital: Horror And Mystery In 19th Century Edinburgh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCase with Ropes and Rings: A Sergeant Beef Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Hour of the Fox Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weird Belfast: A Miscellany, Almanack and Companion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Australian Editing Handbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Historic Thames Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCheckmate: Tales of Speculative Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Borgias Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tales of Unease Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stowmarket Mystery: Or, A Legacy of Hate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man in the Net Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fifty-Ones Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrossword Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Performing Arts For You
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World Turned Upside Down: Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lucky Dog Lessons: From Renowned Expert Dog Trainer and Host of Lucky Dog: Reunions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Is This Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tempest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dolls House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctor Faustus: A Play Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Historical Noir
1 rating0 reviews