Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies

by Luc Boltanski

Book Overview

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745664059
• ISBN13: 9780745664057
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"