...Sarah Briest Abstract Members of a literary organization known as the Detection Club cowrote the mystery novels The Floating Admiral and Ask a Policeman in 1932 and 1933, respectively. These novels are of interest primarily for what they suggest about literary genre: the microcosms...

... . Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette . 1932 . “Girton Girls' Visitors: They May Now Entertain a Man Alone.” November 26 . Berkeley Anthony . 1946 . “The Detection Club Oath.” In The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by Haycroft Howard , 197 – 99...

... of Sherlock Holmes . New York : Bramhall House . Derrida Jacques . 1980 . “The Law of Genre.” Translated by Atival Ronell . Critical Inquiry 7 . 1 : 55 – 81 . “The Detection Club Oath.” (1928?) 1946 . In The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited...

... / Beneath this center / Lies the Bird" (98). After some pondering, LaBas surmises that Hamid possessed Jes Grew's Text and was 5 154 GENRE killed for it by Van Vampton (150). LaBas's assistant, T Malice, tells LaBas that he is going to the Cotton Club to watch the Dancing Bales perform. Sud- denly...

... football club Leeds United, adapted for the screen by Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper. In this way, the paratexts balance carefully between emphasizing the novel's authenticity and reassuring potential buyers that the author will be an expert guide through an unfamiliar cultural landscape. Moreover...

... gondola draped with patriotic bunting, carrying a five-lad crew belonging to that celebrated aeronautics club known as the Chums of Chance, ascended briskly into the morning, and soon caught the southerly wind. When the ship reached cruising altitude...

... hotel they’re using to the club and back. Right there when they need to get food or go to the Rite-­Aid. Right outside the fucking motel door when they’re up there in the motel room with the johns. . . . I seen one of them get lit up with one of them stun guns just...

.... New York: Fordham University Press. Hering, Henry. 1906. Ounce of Radium. In The Burglars Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles, 87 108. London: Cassel. Houen, Alex. 1998. The Secret Agent: Anarchism and the Thermodynamics of Law. ELH 65, no. 4: 995 1016. Ignoramus. 1903. Mystery of Radium...

... by "an American lady philanthropist" to attend "a Pennsylvania college"5 where he graduated with honors, and then observed American forms of civil society ("social and political clubs, benevo- lent societies, trade unions, &c before returning to China. While the biogra- phies he provided to newspapers...

... that there was a family from Brookfield over on the other street, who had apparently moved at the same time we had; and not one mile away was the same house we had lived in for the last three years in Brookfield, present here in Fernwood like a miracle; and the Hunt Club was the same Hunt...

... weeks with geometry, geography, history, and piano playing. A picture by Pablo Picasso replaces one of the Olympiakos football club on her wall, and a chess set appears on her coffee table. The success of Homer’s project is evidenced in Illya’s newfound shame. In the first scene of the film she...

... Club and McCarthy’s subsequent appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show underscore his desire to communicate to a wide popular audience in spite of his demurrals to Winfrey that he would be satisfied if even five hundred readers understood his novel. Admittedly, the novel retains many...

... to comparison, no more so than other works that also feature the grave site, such as Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1883), Ivan Menchell’s Cemetery Club (1990), Evelyn Waugh’s Loved One (1948), or some of Samuel Beckett’s plays. For a number of reasons, these other works do not com...

... or Cam- bridge educated gentlemen, "members of an elite with a traditional right to bear the burden of power and responsibility" within Britain (Stafford 45). Although a "gentleman secret agent" might publicly socialize at clubs and parties, he must privately eschew intimacy, since the future...

... the boys’ club quality of the genre described as encyclopedic (Mendelson 1976a ), mega- (Karl 1985 ; Letzler 2017 ), systems (LeClair 1989 ), modern epic (Moretti 1996 ), or maximalist (Ercolino 2014 ; Levey 2017 ). In addition to acknowledging women's doorstop novels of this kind—books long...

... stirred some emotions: in less than a month the newspaper’s editorial office received a letter from the members of the Spartak Moscow soccer team that read: We, the members of the Moscow-based Spartak club, its employees and its soccer- players who...

... alone gauge their individual experiences. When it comes to the latter, whatever evidence we can procure (barring the discovery of the minutes of a reading club or the diary of a highly self- conscious enthusiast) will always be circumstantial at best. This state of affairs would have been more troubling...

... in which "two berserks club each other to death" (1. 31) gives concrete sensibility to what lies beneath glossy abstractions such as "For honour's sake" (1. 32). Through his genius in repossessing the events of his time, Goya exposes and anatomizes the official discourses that would evade, exonerate...

... to reach the number two position in British album sales, it marked the end of any serious American radio play or chart per- formance for the Pet Shop Boys. Subsequently, with the exception of Very, their recordings have found little audience in the States beyond dance clubs and the Billboard "dance...

... arrangements with producers, promoters and club owners; personal ones, such as friendships with other musicians and gigging "debts" (Rhonda called me to sub for her on this gig, so I'll call her the next time I need a sub); and those with musicians who have preceded them. In all respects, improvisation...