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The Perfect Murder : A Study in Detection
David Lehman
Paperback - $41.95
Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder myster ...
Dr. Joe Bell : Model for Sherlock Holmes
Ely Liebow
Paperback - $42.95
A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion ...
Great Women Mystery Writers
Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay
Hardcover - $138.95
Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book gives students and general readers an overview of contemporary women mystery writers. Many of the writers di ...
AZ Murder Goes : Classic
Susan Malling-Foster
Paperback - $27.95
"If you ever wanted to know more about the life and work of your favorite classic mystery author, here is the book for you... it provides a wealth of solid information and anecdotes... the papers all make unwaveringly entertaining, informative readin ...
Stout Fellow : A Guide Through Nero Wolfe's World
O. E. McBride
Paperback - $39.95
Are you one of the millions who has spent many pleasant hours reading about Nero Wolfe converting the calories from his gourmet dining (albeit grudgingly) into mental energy to solve a murder? If you have traipsed through that morass of neuroses, idi ...
Stout Fellow : A Guide Through Nero Wolfe's World
O. E. McBride
Hardcover - $58.95
Are you one of the millions who has spent many pleasant hours reading about Nero Wolfe converting the calories from his gourmet dining (albeit grudgingly) into mental energy to solve a murder? If you have traipsed through that morass of neuroses, idi ...
Gumshoe America-PB
Sean McCann
Paperback - $51.95
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-centu ...
Detecting Texts : The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism
Patricia Merivale
Paperback - $58.95
"Metaphysical detective stories reveal much about the relation of modernism to postmodernism and of high to low literary culture. Detecting Texts makes an excellent case for the coherence and breadth of the genre. Its broad scope, clear writing, an
Hardboiled & High Heeled : The Woman Detective in Popular Culture
Linda Mizejewski
Paperback - $57.95
Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hardboiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. "Hardboiled and High Heeled" examines the meteoric rise of the ...