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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Mintz, Susannah B.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 147423822X
ISBN13: 9781474238229
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 19 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism.

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