Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of America

Shortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice Domestic

Posthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction Association

Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231206593
• ISBN13: 9780231206594
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"