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1 online resource (389 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel--the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical ""case study"" and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction.Physicians and health wo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. |
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, American. |
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Physicians in literature.
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Physicians in literature. |
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Detectives in literature.
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Crime & mystery. |
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Detectives in literature. |
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Medicolegal issues. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brody, Howard Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher,c2021 9781527562950 |
| ISBN |
1527564800 |
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9781527564800 (electronic book) |
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1527562956 |
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9781527562950 |
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