Historical Noir

The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film and TV

By: Barry Forshaw

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Paperback | 26 April 2018

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192 Pages

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It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of Ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. And this astonishingly varied offshoot of the crime genre, as well as keeping bookshop tills ringing, is winning a slew of awards, notably the prestigious CWA Historical Dagger.

Barry Forshaw, one of the UK's leading experts on crime fiction, has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre. Historical noir began in earnest with Ellis Peters' crime-solving monk Brother Cadfael in the 1970s and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in 1980, and has now taken readers to virtually every era and locale in the past.

As in Nordic Noir, Euro Noir, Brit Noir and American Noir, Forshaw has produced the perfect reader's guide to a fascinating field; every major writer is considered, often through a concentration on one or two key books, and exciting new talents are highlighted.

About the Author

Barry Forshaw is the author of American Noir, Brit Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction , and The Man Who Left Too Soon.

Industry Reviews

"A wonderful reference book that any self-respecting and serious connoisseur of crime fiction needs to have on their book-shelf." --Shots Magazine on Brit Noir
"Forshaw's light tone and easy way with detail make for an accessible read. . . . Forshaw, a leading expert on all matters crime, has an eye for balancing the need to be thorough with the need to be concise and to the point." --nudge-book

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