Reading the cozy mystery : critical essays on an underappreciated subgenre /
"With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A cat. A craft. A cookie. A cozy / Phyllis M. Betz
- Contemporary cozy mysteries, Agatha Christie and the 1990s : six steps toward a definition / Marty S. Knepper
- The cozy from the margins : the archetypes of home and heroism from inside and outside the modern cozy / Susan Rowland
- Counterpointing the cozy : Louise Penny's Three pines / Paula T. Connolly
- Is the cozy a tailor-made style for historical crime set in the 1920s and 30s? / Jennifer S. Palmer
- Displaced controversies : the paradoxes of the cozy setting / Phyllis M. Betz
- This cozy England : England and Englishness in cozy mystery series / Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi
- Extending cozy boundaries / Katherine Heltne Swanson
- The body in the library : the library in the cozy mystery / Mary P. Freier
- Aurora Teagarden, the cozy and the southern gothic / Jessica Gildersleeve
- Clara and Solange : two very modern detectives in a very cozy world / Jon Wilkins
- A likeable man : Columbo as cozy detective / Stephen Cloutier
- The best of both worlds : being cozy and hard-boiled in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe / Sally Beresford-Sheridan.