In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before. Read More
In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before. Read Less
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Large Thin Octavo. 274 pp, 23 chapters, appendix, Notes, index. with check-lists of police procedural titles by the authors discussed in the book. Binding tight & square, pages clean and unmarked, tetblock white all around. Light gray brown cloth, dark letters, crsip and intact.
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Near Fine. Trade Paperback 1st printing. Oversize trade paperback in stiff wrappers. One small stain at spine else near fine, tight copy. The first full length study of The Police Procedural novels. 274 pages with Appendix and Notes.
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