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The Gentle Art of Murder The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie Earl F. Bargainnier Popular Press This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction-sixty-seven novels and more than one hundred short stories—is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishments as a writer. Bargainnier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions. Earl F. Bargainnier is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English Language and Literature at Wesleyan College. A former president of the Popular Culture Association in the South and vice-president of the Popular Culture Association, he has been the editor of Studies in Popular Culture. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

June 2005 LC: 80-083187 PR 238 pp.   6 x 9 Paper $18.95 s ISBN 978-0-87972-159-6 ADD TO CART

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