{"product_id":"9780857301352-historical-noir","title":"Historical Noir","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film and TV\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarry 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/em\u003e in 1980, and has now taken readers to virtually every era and locale in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs in \u003cem\u003eNordic Noir\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEuro Noir\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrit Noir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Noir\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451442442614,"sku":"9780857301352","price":4.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28466612.jpg?v=1760462570","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780857301352-historical-noir","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}