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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction

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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction - Mintz, Susannah B
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This book explores representations of disability in crime fiction from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma, and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and ...

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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction 2021, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781350215436

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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction 2019, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781474238229

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