The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

By Rosemary Herbert, John M. Reilly, Catherine Aird

Subjects: Encyclopedies, Misdaadverhalen, Roman policier, Detective and mystery stories, dictionaries, Criminalite? dans la litterature, Mystery fiction, Crime in literature, Encyclopedias, Detective and mystery stories

Description: "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.