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Twentieth-Century Suspense

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Novels of Leslie Charteris

    • Helena Blakemore
    Pages 69-79
  3. Dorothy Sayers: The Masks of Lord Peter

    • Valerie Pitt
    Pages 97-113
  4. Fifty Million Copies: The Fiction of Dennis Wheatley

    • Christopher Bentley
    Pages 143-160
  5. Margery Allingham and Reader Response

    • Sau Asbee
    Pages 161-173
  6. Grace under Pressure: Reading Alistair MacLean

    • Brian Docherty
    Pages 203-224
  7. Elizabeth Jenkins: Perhaps the History Woman

    • Ian MacKillop
    Pages 225-236
  8. Feminist Detective Fiction

    • Maggie Humm
    Pages 237-254
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 271-273

Editors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

    Clive Bloom

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