Funny Thing About Murder
Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films| By: | David Geherin |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781476669113 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781476629780 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.