Mysteries and conspiracies detective stories, spy novels and the making of modern societies
Through an exploration of the work of the great masters of detective stories and spy novels - G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Le Carré and Graham Greene among others - Boltanski shows that these works of fiction and imagination tell us something fundamental about the nature of modern socie...
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Cambridge, UK
Polity Press
[2014]
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| Edition: | English edition. |
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