Criminal Practices by Julian Symons

Criminal Practices by Julian Symons

This is a collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays by the 1990 Cartier Diamond Dagger award winner - critic and writer, Julian Symons. Following an introduction entitled "The Crime Story Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow", this book offers a collection of Symons's writing on crime fiction from Britain, the United States and elsewhere, plus a section on real life stories, such as "The Hiss Affair" and the "Yorkshire Ripper". Authors that come under Symons's microscope include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carre, and from the United States, pieces about Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Martin Cruz Smith.

Symons, Julian: - Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America - an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain's Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime's achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.

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ISBN 13	9780333614464
ISBN 10	0333614461
Titre	Criminal Practices
Auteur	Julian Symons
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Pan Macmillan
Année de publication	1995-03-10
Nombre de pages	256
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