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Twentieth-Century Suspense

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    Chapter 1 The Immorally Rich and the Richly Immoral: Raffles and the Plutocracy
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    Chapter 2 West is East: Nayland Smith’s Sinophobia and Sax Rohmer’s Bank Balance
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    Chapter 3 Fear’s Keen Knife: Suspense and the Female Detective, 1890–1920
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    Chapter 4 A Society of Murderers Run on Sound Conservative Lines: The Life and Times of Sapper’s Bulldog Drummond
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    Chapter 5 The Novels of Leslie Charteris
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    Chapter 6 Ordeal by Analysis: Agatha Christie’s The Thirteen Problems
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    Chapter 7 Dorothy Sayers: The Masks of Lord Peter
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    Chapter 8 Elizabeth Bowen’s Stories of Suspense
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    Chapter 9 But One Isn’t Murdered: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls
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    Chapter 10 Fifty Million Copies: The Fiction of Dennis Wheatley
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    Chapter 11 Margery Allingham and Reader Response
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    Chapter 12 The View from the Rear Window: The Fiction of Cornell Woolrich
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    Chapter 13 Hitchcock and the Mechanics of Cinematic Suspense
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    Chapter 14 Grace under Pressure: Reading Alistair MacLean
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    Chapter 15 Elizabeth Jenkins: Perhaps the History Woman
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    Chapter 16 Feminist Detective Fiction
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    Chapter 17 The Gentleman’s Excuse-me: The Male Apologist and the Experience of Realism in James Herbert’s The Magic Cottage
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Chapter title
Grace under Pressure: Reading Alistair MacLean
Chapter number 14
Book title
Twentieth-Century Suspense
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 1990
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20678-0_14
Book ISBNs
978-0-333-47592-8, 978-1-349-20678-0
Authors

Brian Docherty

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