Book
The graphic canon of crime & mystery. Volume 1, From Sherlock Holmes to A clockwork orange to Jo Nesbø
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL GRAP (CEN)
Edition
A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Publication Information
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2017]
Physical Description
341 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Summary
"From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; C. Frakes resurrects the forgotten novella 'Talma Gordon,' the first mystery written by an African American. Crime finds new life in these graphic renditions of The Arabian Nights, the Bible, James Joyce's Dubliners, Patricia Highsmith, and leading mystery writers of today like Jo Nesbø"--
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Murderer's wine / Crime and punishment / Fratricide / Postman always rings twice / Strangers on a train / Clockwork orange / In cold blood / Mr. Mercedes / Justine / Body snatcher / Power of eloquence (A tale from Japan) / Two gallants (from Dubliners) / Sherlock Holmes arrives too late (an Arsene Lupin story) / Mircale of the rose / Pimp / Headhunters / Judgment of Solomon / Oedipus Tyrannus / Three apples / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Adventure of the speckled band (a Sherlock Holmes story) / Talma Gordon / Mysteriouis affair at Styles (a Hercule Poirot mystery) / Jesus and the adulteress / Simona and Pasquino (from the Decameron) / Scarlet letter / Prometheus bound / House of the dead / Ballad of reading gaol / Takase Bune / In the penal colony