Detective Fiction: English 373 @ Boston U.
Explore Boston University's English 373 Detective Fiction reading list. Discover classic and contemporary detective novels set in Boston and beyond. Perfect for mystery lovers and literature students.
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes many masterpieces by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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Have His Carcase
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Recovering from an unhappy love affair, a mystery writer seeks solace on a barren beach--deserted but for the body of a young man with his …
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The Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
Miss Jane Marple, a deceptively demure spinster, investigates when an unpopular magistrate and church warden is discovered shot through the head.
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL …
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that …
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The Galton Case
by Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long …
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and …
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"F" is for Fugitive
by Sue Grafton
When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it's hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal …
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Killshot
by Elmore Leonard
Armand Degas is a Mafia hit man the guys call Blackbird. He is cool and composed and knows a good score. So when punk crook …
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Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
The hero is Easy Rawlins just out of job at a defense plant takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt …
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The Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op …
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Antigone
by Sophocles
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history …
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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in …
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The Complete Brigadier Gerard
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A complete collection of the Brigadier Etienne Gerard stories by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the time of Napoleon and his followers, and the awakened …