Ellery Queen, The Art of Detection by Ellery Queen & Francis M. Nevins

Author:Ellery Queen & Francis M. Nevins
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: detective, mystery, literary criticism, biography, non-fiction
ISBN: 9781481879910
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-01-01T20:14:15.564000+00:00

I chafed for years under the glossy artificial brittle manufactures put out under the Queen name—little edifices of taffy offered to a world hungry for substantial fare—all under the name of “escape literature.” Fred’s enthusiasms for the short detective story historically, the little puffings of chest, etc. and the making out of detective stories what they never were and can never be, have always left me dissatisfied, and a little ashamed. I admit he has done a wonderful job of selling, and in the selling has quite managed to obfuscate the truth—which is that the majority of the vast literature of detection, short and long, is hogwash, illiterate and mechanistically mystic in a world crying for art to grapple with reality. . . .

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