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Title Mystery and suspense writers : the literature of crime, detection, and espionage / Robin W. Winks, editor in chief ; Maureen Corrigan, associate editor
Published New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1998]
©1998
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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xiv, 1296 pages))
Series Gale virtual reference library
The Scribner writers series
Gale virtual reference library.
Scribner writers series.
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
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
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Dictionaries
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Dictionaries.
Espionage in literature -- Dictionaries
Spies in literature -- Dictionaries
Spy stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Spy stories, American -- Dictionaries
Spy stories, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Spy stories, English -- Dictionaries
Misdaadromans.
Misdaadverhalen.
Spionageverhalen.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Espionage in literature.
Spies in literature.
Spy stories, American.
Spy stories, English.
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Corrigan, Maureen.
Winks, Robin W.
ISBN 0684316617
9780684316611
Other Titles Mystery & suspense writers