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From Holmes to Poirot to the modern profiler: the detective in all their glory. The Grand Tour: A to Z of the Detective is a sweeping celebration of crime fiction’s greatest creation — the sleuth. From Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street to the hard-boiled streets of Hammett and Chandler, from Miss Marple’s village to today’s forensic investigators, this A-to-Z tours the genre’s landmarks.
Each entry explores a detective, a subgenre, or a key theme: the golden age, the police procedural, the cozy, the noir. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, it traces how the detective story evolved from Poe’s Dupin to the psychological thrillers of today — and why we never tire of the brilliant mind solving the impossible crime.
For mystery lovers, this is both reference and joyride — the perfect companion to a lifetime of reading crime. Comprehensive, entertaining, and beautifully produced: the genre’s family album, annotated.
Roy Lichtenstein: How Modern Art Was Saved by Donald Duck
From Alastair Sooke, deputy art critic of the Daily Telegraph, comes this lively Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), the Pop Art pioneer whose Ben-Day dots, speech bubbles, and comic-strip heroines — from Look Mickey to Whaam! — made high art out of popular culture. His giant canvases of war and romance became icons of the 1960s.
Sooke traces Lichtenstein’s extraordinary career: from his breakthrough 1961 painting of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to his status as one of the defining artists of the twentieth century. Along the way, he explores how Lichtenstein’s cool, ironic embrace of cartoons and advertising challenged the art world’s snobbery — and helped save modern art from itself.
Designed to be read in two hours or less, this is the perfect introduction to one of Pop Art’s giants: witty, erudite, and wonderfully readable. A delight for art lovers and general readers alike, it shows how one artist’s playful genius changed the course of modern art.
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