Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (xiv, 1296 pages)) |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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The Scribner writers series |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Scribner writers series.
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Contents |
Vol. 1. Introduction -- Individual Writers -- Margery Allingham / Paula M. Woods -- Eric Ambler / Peter Lewis -- Robert Barnard / Jon L. Breen -- E.C. Bentley / Thomas M. Leitch -- Nicholas Blake / Thomas M. Leitch -- Lawrence Block / Charles Ardai -- Jorge Luis Borges and the Metaphysical Mystery / Michael Holquist -- John Buchan / George O'Brien -- John Dickson Carr / Michael Dirda -- The Nick Carter Stories / J. Randolph Cox -- Raymond Chandler / Joan Zseleczky -- Leslie Charteris / Burl Barer -- G.K. Chesterton / John C. Tibbetts -- Agatha Christie / David Hawkes -- Wilkie Collins / Audrey Peterson -- K.C. Constantine / Jeffery Fraser -- Patricia Cornwell / Ellen Bleiler -- Edmund Crispin / Michael Dirda -- Freeman Wills Crofts / Melvyn Barnes -- Amanda Cross / Mary Rose Sullivan -- Carroll John Daly / Rex Burns -- Colin Dexter / Douglas G. Greene -- Arthur Conan Doyle / Owen Dudley Edwards -- Daphne du Maurier / June M. Frazer -- Mignon G. Eberhart / LeRoy Lad Panek -- Stanley Ellin / Marvin S. Lachman -- Ian Fleming / Max Allan Collins -- Dick Francis / Rachel Schaffer -- Émile Gaboriau / Walter Albert -- Erie Stanley Gardner / William F. Nolan -- Michael Gilbert / B.A. Pike -- Sue Grafton / Jean Swanson -- Anna Katharine Green / Patricia Maida -- Graham Greene / Brian Diemert -- Dashiell Hammett / David Geherin -- George V. Higgins / Erwin H. Ford -- Patricia Highsmith / Noel Dorman Mower -- Evan Hunter / Dean A. Miller -- Michael Innes / George L. Scheper -- P.D. James / Dennis Porter -- Ronald A. Knox / Susan Oleksiw -- John le Carr{acute}e / LynnDianne Beene -- Elmore Leonard / Edward Gorman, Robert Skinner, and Robert Gleason -- Robert Ludlum / Roy S. Goodman -- John D. MacDonald / Lewis D. Moore -- Vol. 2. -- Ross Macdonald / Robert F. Moss -- Helen Maclnnes / Priscilla L. Walton -- Ngaio Marsh / Bruce Harding -- Margaret Millar / Mary Jean DeMarr -- John Mortimer / Sharon Villines -- Sara Paretsky / Margaret H. Kinsman -- Robert B. Parker / Maureen Corrigan -- Edgar Allan Poe / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Ellery Queen / Francis M. Nevins -- Ruth Rendell / B.J. Rahn -- Sax Rohmer / R.E. Briney -- Dorothy L. Sayers / Robert Allen Papinchak -- Georges Simenon / George Grella -- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö / Nancy C. Mellerski and Robert P. Winston -- Mickey Spillane / Max Allan Collins -- Rex Stout / David R. Anderson -- Julian Symons / H.R.F. Keating -- Josephine Tey / Alexandra von Malottke Roy -- S.S. Van Dine / John Loughery -- Robert van Gulik / Wilt L. Idema -- Edgar Wallace / Richard Bleiler -- Donald E. Westlake / Lawrence Block -- Cornell Woolrich / Francis M. Nevins -- Themes and Subgenres -- The Armchair Detective / B.J. Rahn -- Black Detective Fiction / Stephen Soitos -- Crime Noir / Charles L.P. Silet -- The Ethnic Detective: Arthur W. Upfield, Tony Hillerman, and Beyond / Ray B. Browne -- The Female Detective: From Nancy Drew to Sue Grafton / Maureen T Reddy -- Gay and Lesbian Mystery Fiction / Anthony Slide -- The Historical Mystery / Robin W. Winks -- The Legal Crime Novel / Jon L. Breen -- The Police Procedural / Jon L. Breen -- Regionalization of the Mystery and Crime Novel / J.K. Van Dover -- Religious Mysteries / William David Spencer -- The Romantic Suspense Mystery / Jennifer Crusie Smith -- The Spy Thriller / Wesley K. Wark -- Women of Mystery: Helen McCloy, Doris Miles Disney, and Dorothy Salisbury Davis / Robert Allen Papinchak -- Appendix 1: Pseudonyms and Series Characters -- Appendix 2: Some Mystery and Suspense Subgenres -- Appendix 3: Major Prizewinners -- Contributors -- Index |
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v. 1. Margery Allingham to John D. MacDonald -- volume 2. Ross MacDonald to women of mystery |
Summary |
Presents biographical and critical essays covering influential writers of mystery, detective, police, and spy novels |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Crime in literature -- Dictionaries
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- Dictionaries
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- Dictionaries.
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Espionage in literature -- Dictionaries
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Spies in literature -- Dictionaries
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Spy stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Spy stories, American -- Dictionaries
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Spy stories, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
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Spy stories, English -- Dictionaries
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Misdaadromans.
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Misdaadverhalen.
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Spionageverhalen.
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Crime in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Espionage in literature.
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Spies in literature.
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Spy stories, American.
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Spy stories, English.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Dictionaries.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Corrigan, Maureen.
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Winks, Robin W.
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ISBN |
0684316617 |
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9780684316611 |
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