What about Murder?
Title | What about Murder? PDF eBook |
Author | Jon L. Breen |
Publisher | Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Identifies and annotates 239 books about mystery and detective fiction published through the end of 1981.
Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery
Title | Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Curtis Evans |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786490896 |
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.
Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Title | Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | J. Randolph Cox |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
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.
Masters of Mystery
Title | Masters of Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Douglas Thomson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN |
Masters of Mystery
Title | Masters of Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | H. Douglas Thomson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Title | 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Kelleghan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 757 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN |
100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Title | 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Kelleghan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Essays taken from Salem Press's Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction, published in 1988.