The detective's companion in crime fiction : a study in sidekicks /: a study in sidekicks. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lucy Andrew, Samuel Saunders.
• Editors: Andrew, Lucy; Saunders, Samuel
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks, Samuel Saunders and Lucy Andrew.- 2. 'One Fixed Point in a Changing Age': Reframing the Sidekick, Michelle D. Miranda.- 3. 'Passed by unnoticed': Surveillance and the Street Urchin in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, Oriah Amit.- 4. '…always with the Inspector': The Reader as Sidekick in Mid-Victorian 'Detective Literature', 1845-1887, Samuel Saunders.- 5. 'You have a grand gift of silence, Watson': Re-Inventing Agency in Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Dr Watson, Annette Wren.- 6. 'A Look of Doglike Devotion'': Hercule Poirot's Stooges and Foils', J. C. Bernthal.- 7. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Sally Bernadette Beresford-Sheridan.- 8. 'Pretty, but not so pretty…': Marlowe's Female Sidekicks and the Domestication of Hard-boiled Detective Fiction, Alexander Howe.- 9. The Anti-Sidekick: Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, Double Consciousness and the Subversion of the Sidekick in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mysteries, Nathan Ashman.- 10. 72 Votes: Theorizing the Scapegoat Sidekick in Batman: A Death in the Family, Kwasu Tembo.- 11. 'I'm gonna be the best friend you could ever hope for—and the worst enemy you could ever imagine.': Frank Miller's All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative, Lucy Andrew.- 12. 'World's long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives': Lewis, Hathaway, and Endeavour; The Changing Roles of Colin Dexter's Sidekicks, David Bishop.- 13. Mooncakes and Squashed Fly Biscuits: Otherness in the Wells and Wong series, Alice Nuttall.- 14. Sherlock's Legacy: The Case of the Extraordinary Sidekick, Dominique Gracia.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.3872; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism; Sidekicks in literature; Crime in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030749897
• Related ISBNs: 9783030749880
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