The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
by Rosemary Herbert, Catherine Aird, and John M. Reilly
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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
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The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
December 16, 1999, Oxford University Press
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"It was a cold and wintry afternoon in Oxford, England, when the editors of the then nascent volume which would come to be known as The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing concluded the meeting that would lay the groundwork for this book."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
$65.00
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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."
--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
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