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The Fourth Deadly Sin Study Guide

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by Lawrence Sanders
About 6 pages (1,873 words)

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Literary Precedents

The police procedural may have originated in the hard-boiled detective tales by such masters as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Sanders is one of the reigning master of this genre: others include Evan Hunter and Joseph Wambaugh.

An interesting allusion is the romances about medieval knights errant.

Like King Arthur, Delaney assembles a group of knights.....

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The Fourth Deadly Sin 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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