Is there a noticeable difference in the vocabulary used in modern bestselling thrillers compared to the mystery books I used to read in the nineteen seventies?
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Is there a noticeable difference in the vocabulary used in modern bestselling thrillers compared to the mystery books I used to read in the nineteen seventies?
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1970s detective fiction prose style vocabulary comparison contemporary crime thrillers language narrative styleGoogle ↗
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1970s detective fiction prose style vocabulary comparison contemporary crime thrillers language narrative style Google ↗
- ‘Literary’ Crime Fiction – · digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
- Ralph Willett, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction - British Association for American Studies · baas.ac.uk
- 80 The American Thriller · literariness.org