'Murder Will Out' by T. J. Binyon - 9780571250264

'Murder Will Out'The Detective in Fiction from Poe to the Present\nAuthor(s): T. J. Binyon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom\nImprint: Faber & Faber\nISBN-13: 9780571250264, 978-0571250264\nSynopsis\n'No-one has approached the vast, continuing corpus of detective fiction in quite this way before.' Financial Times What is it that has always made the detective such a popular figure in fiction? Why are we always so seduced by the search to discover 'whodunit'? And how far back does this fascination go? Following the trail of the detective - from Poe's Chevalier Dupin to the time of this book's first publication in 1989 - T J Binyon's brilliant history explores one of fiction's most enduring characters, in all its many guises. Murder Will Out is an essential guide for anyone who has ever been gripped by a good crime novel and wants to investigate further.