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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Saint with a gun	William Ruehlmann	This is not Saint With a Gun it is a book of Spanish poetry.	OL13002436W
Murder ink	Dilys Winn	A host of crime buffs including Interpol consultants, forensic anthropologists, psychiatrists, and novelists contribute articles on the many faces, factors, and techniques of crime in fact and fictio…	OL15162819W
Agatha Christie	Mark Campbell	Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular charact…	OL15180873W
The boy detectives	Michael G. Cornelius	"This collection of eleven essays examines the boy detective and his genre, addressing the issues of these characters, heirs to the patriarchy yet still concerned with first crushes and soda shop rom…	OL15488373W
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel	A. B. Emrys	"Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. This critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolar…	OL15980039W
Before Sherlock Holmes	LeRoy Panek	"This volume surveys the first fifty years of the detective story in nineteenth-century America and England, examining not only major works, but also the lesser known--including contemporary pseudo-b…	OL16167750W
The mysteries of the cities	Stephen Thomas Knight	"A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which sought to…	OL16176134W
Nice and Noir	Richard B. Schwartz	"Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who…	OL16983359W
Pimping fictions	Justin Gifford	Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Chester Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. He draws from an impressiv…	OL19662495W
Holy Clues	Stephen Kendrick	If God is the greatest mystery of them all, then why not, in pursuit of God, consult the greatest detective of them all? In this imaginative and surprisingly profound book, Stephen Kendrick reveals S…	OL1995306W
Dashiell Hammett	Sally Cline	"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the fig…	OL19975922W
Being Cool	Charles J. Rzepka	Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka …	OL20214905W
Women authors of detective series	Moira Davison Reynolds	"While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during…	OL2712207W
Defective Inspectors	Simon Kemp	Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own…	OL3254898W
My Dear Holmes	Gavin Brend	> Baker Street is the only street in the world which is famous wherever the English language is spoken as being the home of a character in fiction. Yet no one has so far been able to identify the hou…	OL3954452W
Scene of the crime	David Geherin	"Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. After an introductory chapter dealing with general conside…	OL4638538W
The dime detectives	Ron Goulart	248 p., [16] p. of plates : 22 cm	OL466787W
Le Carré's landscape	Tod Hoffman	"The reality of espionage isn't easily disentangled from its mythology, and somewhere at the uneasy confluence of these dimensions is the fiction of John le Carre. A former British intelligence offic…	OL6016671W
Sherlock Holmes Detected	Ian McQueen	>Sherlock Holmes Detected examines the life and career of the famous detective, and of his faithful friend Dr Watson, through the pages of the four novels not forgetting, of course, the fifty-six s…	OL7001135W
Mystery and its fictions	David I. Grossvogel	Overview: Dedicated mystery fans, as well as those interested in literary theory or in the individual writers discussed, will find in Grossvogel's book an eloquent discourse on the relation of detect…	OL77736W