Mystery & Detective

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879721732Author Earl F BargainnierFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434403711Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406477Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406354Author Billy C LeeFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992476601Author Jack SladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Slade BookPublisher Slade BookWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406415Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406439Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406378Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406460Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

This volume presents a new aspect in the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: a case study of the publishing history of his works. Since Doyle's works before 1890 could not be copyrighted in the United States, various unauthorized versions of Holmes stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406309Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406293Author Billy C LeeFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406422Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

At one time, Mickey Spillane had authored seven of the top ten bestsellers in history, and may have been the most widely read author in the world. Spillane masterful storytelling grabs his readers with his first paragraph and leads them spellbound toward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256725Author Stanley OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406446Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Inthis book, Laurence Roth argues that the popular genre of Jewish detective stories offers new insights into the construction of ethnic and religious identity. Roth frames his study with the concept of "kosher hybridity" to look at the complex process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406392Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406385Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406408Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434406361Author Guy M TownsendFormat PaperbackImprint Borgo PressPublisher Borgo PressWeight(grams) 91g

Is the detective novel popular fiction or serious literature? This collection of essays examines the historical, literary, and critical aspects of the genre. Three interrelated aspects of detective fiction are addressed: the mystery story as a vehicle...

Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892963928Author Michael J McCauleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

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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.About the Authorreffler /f Philip /i A. /r ed.Book InformationISBN 9780313241062Author Philip A. ShrefflerFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

"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 fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble...

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.Winner of the 1981 Edgar Allen Poe Award.ReviewsRecommended for all libraries except those that refuse to include mystery fiction. * CHOICE *Every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2009. Short-listed for Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2010 and Macavity Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN...