Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: america, fiction, crime, cause, probable
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0879724862
ISBN-13: 9780879724863

“Down these mean streets a man must go.” For hard-boiled heroes, it used to be that way. But not any more. The streets are now far meaner than anything Raymond Chandler could have imagined when he wrote this classic description of the hard-boiled hero. And the heroes who go down those mean streets are no longer just tough middle-aged white men. Stories about these heroes, too, have risen from the pages of pulp magazines to today’s best-seller lists. Beginning in the 1970s a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hamme

Author: Leroy Lad Panek
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: novel, spy, british, branch, special
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1981-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0879721782
ISBN-13: 9780879721787

The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.

Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: 1970s, 1990s, writers, boiled, hard, new
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0879728205
ISBN-13: 9780879728205

“Down these mean streets a man must go.” For hard-boiled heroes, it used to be that way. But not any more. The streets are now far meaner than anything Raymond Chandler could have imagined when he wrote this classic description of the hard-boiled hero. And the heroes who go down those mean streets are no longer just tough middle-aged white men. Stories about these heroes, too, have risen from the pages of pulp magazines to today’s best-seller lists. Beginning in the 1970s a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hamme

Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: story, detective, american, origins
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2006-09-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786427760
ISBN-13: 9780786427765

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public’s hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police a

Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: britain, novel, detective, shepherds, watteau
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1979-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0879721324
ISBN-13: 9780879721329

Detective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sheds new light into the fascinating field of detective fiction.

Author: Leroy Panek
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: history, novel, police, american
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786416882
ISBN-13: 9780786416882

Authors:Kay LeRoy, Jennifer Oz LeRoy,
Publisher: Artisan
Keywords: times, recipes, tavern
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 157965357X
ISBN-13: 9781579653576

A glorious celebration of the legendary eating spot in Manhattan’s Central Park. Nestled in Central Park, one of the most fabulous settings imaginable, Tavern on the Green has been dazzling generations of New Yorkers and visitors with its inventive, eclectic menu and playful decor. Some 700,000 guests dine every year at this one-of-a-kind restaurant, which has also played host to countless weddings and birthday parties, Broadway opening nights and glamorous afterparties, and many other memorable events. This enchanting souvenir volume captures all of Tavern on the Green’s rich his