The Defective Detective in the Pulps

Author/Contributor(s):	Hoppenstand, Gary
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Date:	06/01/1983
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.