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Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs—the double, the labyrinth and the... read more
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- Tom Ripley: Add a description of this character.
- Dickie Greenleaf
- Danielewski
- Borges
- Leonard
- Poe
- Brigid
- Mr. Ripley
- Hammett
- Freud
- Spade
- Fanshawe
- Dupin
- Paul Auster
- Lönnrot
- Highsmith
- Marge
- Lacan
- Sammy
- Johnny
- Wakefield
- Will Navidson
- Black
- Doris
- Stillman
- Hawthorne
- Quinn
- Dave
- Camus
- Malmgren
- Zampanò
- Peirce
- Flitcraft
- Gutman
- Cora
- Chandler
- Frank
- Christopher Nolan
- Irwin
- Herbert Greenleaf
- Yarmolinsky
- Derwatt
- Deleuze
- Slocombe
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.087209
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