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Alan Moore's the Courtyard Companion
Alan Moore
Paperback - $18.95
The story itself was just the beginning of the mystery of what lurks in the Courtyard. The Courtyard Companion delves deep into the Lovecraftian roots of the masterpiece! This volume reprints the original script it was drawn from with full annotation ...
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
Bruce Murphy
Paperback - $41.95
An indispensable and lively guide to the world of mystery writing, "The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery" is an A-Z of whodunit and how it was done.
Make Mine a Mystery : A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Hardcover - $138.95
If you've been searching for a comprehensive readers' advisory guide for mystery and detective fiction, look no further. With more than 2,500 titles and more than 200 authors, this book will provide you with an excellent overview and a thorough under ...
The Origins of the American Detective Story
Leroy Lad Panek
Paperback - $75.95
Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders ...
AZ Murder Goes...Artful
Barbara Peters
Paperback - $24.95
Raymond Chandler called it "The Simple Art of Murder, " but It never has been simple to write mysteries. This volume explores the crimes in novels that are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.
Amelia Peabody's Egypt : A Compendium
Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover - $54.95
The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian cultur ...
Ngaio Marsh : The Woman and Her Work
B. J. Rahn
Paperback - $65.95
In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespeare
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell : British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
Susan Rowland
Hardcover - $233.95
"From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell" is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies o ...
Resisting Arrest : Detective Fiction and Popular Culture
Robert A. Rushing
Paperback - $45.95
An innovative and entertaining look at genre, popular culture, enjoyment, and psychoanalysis.
Detective fiction, a category that, broadly defined, runs the gamut from "Oedipus Rex" to "The Purloined Letter," continues to draw a range of fans and ...