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Mystery Muses : 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers
Jim Huang
Paperback - $24.95
For a follow-up to our Agatha and Anthony-award winning collections of essays, 100 FAVORITE MYSTERIES OF THE CENTURY (2000) and THEY DIED IN VAIN: OVERLOOKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED AND FORGOTTEN MYSTERY NOVELS (2003), we asked 100 published mystery writer ...
They Died in Vain : Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels
Jim Huang
Paperback - $21.95
If characters die in a mystery novel, and no one reads their story, have they died in vain? Mystery experts -- booksellers, reviewers, genre devotees -- introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books tha ...
The Mystery to a Solution : Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story
John T. Irwin
Paperback - $54.95
In The Mystery to a Solution, John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borges' efforts to "double" the genre's origins one hundred years later. Combining history, l ...
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them : Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
John T. Irwin
Hardcover - $96.95
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the "hard-boiled" detective, most famously exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the a ...
Behind the Mystery
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Hardcover - $49.95
Kaminsky personally visited and interviewed 18 of his friends who are leading mystery writers. Laurie Roberts captures them on film at home, working, and relaxing.
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 : Detection, Death, Diversity
Stephen Thomas Knight
Hardcover - $212.95
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 forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and ...
Crime Fiction, 1800-2000 : Detection, Death, Diversity
Stephen Thomas Knight
Paperback - $64.95
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 forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and ...
Creating the Fictional Female Detective : The Sleuth Heroines of British Women Writers, 1890-1940
Carla T. Kungl
Paperback - $75.95
This study examines a number of previously overlooked or undervalued women detective fiction writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and traces their relationship to later women writers who shaped the future of the genre, Dorothy Sayers, Ag ...
The Heirs of Anthony Boucher : A History of Mystery Fandom
Marvin Lachman
Paperback - $33.95
This history of mystery fandom is called The Heirs of Anthony Boucher because it was to Boucher's mystery review column in the New York Times Book Review that fans turned, before what Lachman calls "The Fan Revolution" was launched in 1967. In a lite ...