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The Black Marble Study Guide

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by Joseph Wambaugh
About 4 pages (1,086 words)
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Literary Precedents

The Black Marble is in the tradition of the mystery novel, where by a combination of skill, luck and guile, the hero-detective solves the case. This genre originated in England with Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868). It was continued in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's.....

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The Black Marble from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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