Mystery & Detective

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313220623Author David Skene-MelvinFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971). One of the most popular American mystery writers of the 20th century, he is often...

Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not...

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are...

The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time. His works continue to be read today and have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313241062Author Philip A. ShrefflerFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."--Agatha Christie Perhaps that is why audiences continue to be captivated by what Raymond Chandler called "The Simple Art of Murder." For who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing?...

Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, uses a popular literary genre, the novel of mystery and suspense, to explore contemporary social issues and the reality of evil in the lives of ordinary people. This first critical study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952408212Author Liese Sherwood-FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Little ELM PressPublisher Little ELM PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2002 and Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2003 and Macavity Award (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780962580475Author Jim...

Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to American television are far from typical of the latest women...

There is a new category of authors blurring the line between reality and fiction. These authors are women with occupations in the criminal justice system-lawyers, police officers, and forensic investigators-who publish crime fiction with characters that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605430027Author Professor Francis M NevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Ramble HousePublisher Ramble HouseWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780810814134Author Jon L. BreenFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Scarecrow PressPublisher Scarecrow PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933523729Author Elena SantangeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Bella Rosa BooksPublisher Bella Rosa BooksWeight(grams) 209g

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative. This work examines the city, the countryside and the wilderness as places ripe with literary...

[Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure who embodies all the potential wit, drive and zest of girlhood. Her male counterpart, however, has received much less critical attention despite his popularity in the wider...

In its 80+ years, the Hardy Boys series has sold more than 50 million books in 25 or more languages, and has inspired five television series and many stage plays, websites, comic books, graphic novels and computer games. The series has shaped the way...

This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma novels, which feature Sister Fidelma's attempts to solve a wide range of crimes, often murders that occur under especially mysterious conditions. The novels, set mainly in 7th...

Since the 1979 discovery of Martha Grimes' work in a slush pile at Little, Brown & Co., she has gone on to publish more than thirty books, won international acclaim (and a Nero Wolfe Award) for her detective series, and developed a following of readers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991068456Author Lawrence BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint LB ProductionsPublisher LB ProductionsWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a household name, Hammett developed his technique writing satirical magazine pieces, then moved on to churn out...

This ambitious study examines the works of modern African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. It begins with a historical overview that describes the movement by African...

Crime fiction was a creation of the modern world and its suddenly growing cities, when in both reality and fiction specialists emerged to identify criminals and protect the anxious, isolated citizens. At first they tended to be lawyers, but then...

Like a private eye waiting in the alleyway across the street, detective fiction lurks at the heart of modern storytelling. Not only do its tales infiltrate every genre, but the very nature of the detective story itself helps us understand how we build...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716619434Author Greg RubyFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the...

This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots,...

Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This historical and critical text surveys early and mid-20th century American detective novels,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605434582Author Professor Francis M NevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Ramble HousePublisher Ramble HouseWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733196857Author Tom AswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Claitor's Pub DivisionPublisher Claitor's Pub DivisionWeight(grams) 699g

The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s - a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605431680Author Jon L BreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ramble HousePublisher Ramble HouseWeight(grams) 431g

Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changing attitudes, storylines involving cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction-characters who...

This book examines Florida crime novelists through interviews with several contemporary mystery writers, all of whom have based many of their stories in the Keys, Miami, the Everglades, or other locations throughout the state. Included are ""The Mango...

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The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build-upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period...

These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of which are available in English). The writers discussed range from Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin to Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea...

H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly...

Gertrude Stein called it ""the only really modern novel form that has come into existence,"" yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character. Since then, ""lavender""...