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Crime Fiction, 1800-2000
Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various …
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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan …
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Detective Fiction
'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction …
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Bloody Murder
In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as …
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Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books
Traces the growth of the mystery genre and selects what he considers to be the top one hundred, giving a perceptive and informative account of each
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100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century
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The Triumph of the Thriller
"In his provocative, caustic, and often hilarious survey of today's popular fiction, Anderson shows us who the best thriller writers are - and the worst. He shows how Michael Connelly …
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Whodunit?:A Who's Who in Crime and Mystery Writing
Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the …
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The Crown Crime Companion
The Crown Crime Companion The Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers Of America Annotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey Friedman For The …
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They Died in Vain
Mystery experts introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books that unaccountably disappeared and lesser-known titles by bestselling authors. ... This book takes you beyond the …
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The Complete Christie
Painstakingly researched, this illustrated reference captures the spirited imagination of Dame Agatha and the intriguing atmosphere of her tales. Includes a comprehensive Christie biography, cross-referenced with plot synopses and character …
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Hardboiled Mystery Writers
An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, Dashiell HAmmett, and Ross Macdonald, …
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Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Raymond Chandler in Hollywood is an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose credits included Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, and Strangers …
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Gumshoe America
DIVSees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and democracy during the New Deal./div
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Mystery Muses
Modern mystery writers describe classic mystery books that influenced them.
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Behind the Mystery
Stuart Kaminsky takes the readers into the personal lives and homes of well-known contemporary mystery writers.
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Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir
Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett …
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The Web of Iniquity
Post-Civil War detective fiction, written mostly by women, considered in relation to other forms of sentimental and domestic fiction.
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Twentieth-century Crime Fiction
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in …
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Detecting Women Pocket Guide
This pocket guide checklist written by women includes: over 200 new authors since the last edition; more than 800 series detectives created by living women authors; over 3,700 mystery titles …
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Anatomy of Murder
Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation (of behavior and signs). Built on a faith in foundations, it insists upon the solidity …
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Synod of Sleuths
In this collection of original essays, several prominent writers and critics of the genre examine the interface of theology and detection. Edward D. Hoch discusses Roman Catholic sleuths; James Yaffe …
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain …
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Resisting Arrest
Looks at the detective genre in its many different cultural manifestations, from popular fiction to high literature, from art films to popular television series, and finds that the genre is …
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Arthur Conan Doyle
An ambitious author and a fearless adventurer, Conan Doyle always considered Sherlock Holmes to be one of his less interesting achievements. He was a ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaling …
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Conan Doyle, Detective
Arthur Conan Doyle did not rely on imagination for the amazing cases tackled by his hero, Sherlock Holmes, after all. Drawing on new research that follows the tracks the author …
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Final Séance
Details the five-year friendship during which "Houdini and Conan Doyle exchanged views about Spiritualism; conducted investigations of notable mediums of their day, such as Mina 'Margery' Crandon; and even enjoyed …
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The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning as a small-town doctor, became a friend to the famous, a celebrated writer, and a …
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The 8:55 to Baghdad
In 1928, Agatha Christie, the world's most widely read author, was a thirty-something single mother.
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Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
This volume gives a meticulously researched account of the disappearance of Agatha Christie over the Christmas period of 1926. It is based upon interviews with close family relatives and features …
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Agatha Christie
Pocket Essential guide to Agatha Christie, legendary author of high grade whodunits and author of the longest running play in the history of British theatre. Campbell provides an informed introduction …
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is loved and remembered, most notably, for the creation of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. As this biography attests, Sayers was also one of …
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