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Book Synopsis What about Murder? by : Jon L. Breen
Download or read book What about Murder? written by Jon L. Breen and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981.
Book Synopsis Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery by : Curtis Evans
Download or read book Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
Book Synopsis Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : J. Randolph Cox
Download or read book Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by J. Randolph Cox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
Book Synopsis Masters of Mystery by : Henry Douglas Thomson
Download or read book Masters of Mystery written by Henry Douglas Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masters of True Crime by : R. Barri Flowers
Download or read book Masters of True Crime written by R. Barri Flowers and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning murder cases from the beginning of the twentieth century to today, this is a must-read for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller readers. The contributors include Harold Schechter, Katherine Ramsland, Carol Anne Davis, Burl Barer, and other leading writers in this genre. In February 1975, nine-year-old Marcia Trimble left her house in Nashville to deliver Girl Scout cookies in the neighborhood. She never returned. After a massive but fruitless search, her body was discovered on Easter Sunday. Outrage and horror gripped the community of Nashville, but the murder investigation was frustrated at every turn. The case went cold for three decades until it was finally solved. In January 1997, Herbert Blitzstein was found murdered in the living room of his Las Vegas townhouse. A notorious mob insider, "Fat Herbie" had pursued loan sharking and other rackets for decades. Now, Blitzstein had been dispatched gangland style—by three bullets to the back of the head—in what appeared to be a classic contract killing. But the details of who killed him and why turned out to be much more complicated, and the real motives and circumstances remain murky to this day. These are just two examples of the riveting stories assembled in this unparalleled collection of some of the top true-crime writers in the world. Each of the seventeen contributors draws on his or her own strengths, backgrounds, interests, and research skills to describe in a vivid narrative not only the facts of each notorious case but also the terrible emotions and macabre circumstances surrounding the crimes.
Book Synopsis 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : Fiona Kelleghan
Download or read book 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by Fiona Kelleghan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : Salem Press
Download or read book 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by Salem Press and published by Magill's Choice. This book was released on 2001 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction is a response to the growing attention paid to genre fiction in schools and universities. Since Edgar Allan Poe invented the modern mystery story in the mid-19th century, the number of authors writing in this field has steadily grown, as have the appetites of growing numbers of readers. This collection surveys 100 of the writers who have made the most lasting contributions to the genre, covering such major figures as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, and Rex Stout.Articles range in length from 2,500 to 6,000 words and are organized in a format designed to provide quick access to information. Handy ready-reference listings are designed to accommodate the unique characteristics of the mystery/detective fiction genre, including author's pseudonyms, types of plots, principal series and principal series characters, and even a glossary of terms peculiar to the genre. Ready-reference data at the top of each article include the author's name, birth and death information. A "Contribution" section pinpoints each author's impact on the genre. The "Biography" section offers a concise overview of the author's life, and the "Analysis" section, the core of each article, examines the author's most representative works. A bibliography at the end of each article lists the author's works chronologically both within and outside of the genre.
Book Synopsis Masters of Mystery by : H. Douglas Thomson
Download or read book Masters of Mystery written by H. Douglas Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Master of the Moor by : Ruth Rendell
Download or read book Master of the Moor written by Ruth Rendell and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .
Book Synopsis Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : J. Randolph Cox
Download or read book Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by J. Randolph Cox and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny. This bibliography is intended for the student, general reader, or mystery buff who needs some basic information about the mystery genre and its representative authors. Selective, rather than exhaustive, it serves as an introduction. Entries on the life and work of seventy-five writers from Margery Allingham, Raymond Chandler, and Amanda Cross to P.D. James, John D. MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, and Georges Simenon appear.
Book Synopsis The Masters of Mystery by : Martin Radcliffe
Download or read book The Masters of Mystery written by Martin Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Victorians such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were the pioneers of crime and detective fiction, but they were by no means alone. In this definitive collection, mystery critic and historian Martin Radcliffe delves into the archives and presents some of the best and most influential short stories of the Victorian and Edwardian years. These are the tales of Masters (and Mistresses) of Mystery that inspired generations of writers and led to the creation of renowned detectives such as Lord Peter Wimsey, Sam Spade, Miss Marple, Lew Archer, Morse, Dalgliesh and Rebus.
Book Synopsis 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham by : Fiona Kelleghan
Download or read book 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham written by Fiona Kelleghan and published by Magill's Choice. This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery Queen and Rex Stout.Handy, ready-reference listings aredesigned to accommodate the uniquecharacteristics of mystery and detectivefiction, including author?s pseudonyms,types of plots, principal series and principalseries characters, and even a glossaryof terms peculiar to the genre.Reference elements include a complete,up-to-date list of authors? works, a glossaryof mystery and detective fiction terms,annotated bibliographies, a time line, anindex of series characters and a list ofauthors by plot type.
Book Synopsis H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by : Laird R. Blackwell
Download or read book H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Detective Stories by : Patricia Craig
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Download or read book The Viaduct Murder written by Ronald Knox and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder. The police aren't so sure, and when it looks as though the official verdict will be suicide the men are outraged. Convinced that there had been 'dirty work' and that 'the police aren't very good at following up clues', they undertake their own investigation. A classic Golden Age whodunit that involves the reader in a charming game of detection as the protagonists use Sherlockian methods to unravel the mystery.
Book Synopsis American Mystery and Detective Novels by : Larry Landrum
Download or read book American Mystery and Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
Book Synopsis The Master Mystery (1919) by : Arthur Benjamin Reeve
Download or read book The Master Mystery (1919) written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
