Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books

Cover of Complete Mystery Detective Anthologies
by Chester K. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Table of Contents The Mansion of Mystery (1911) The Diamond Cross Mystery (1918) The Golf Course Mystery (1919) The Mansion of Mystery (1911) This story will introduce to the public a powerful new figure in detective literature--Adam...
Cover of Complete Mystery Detective Anthologies
by Allan Pinkerton
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014

Includes an active table of contents so you can easily navigate to each book. Table of Contents The Expressman and the Detective (1874) The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (1875) The Spiritualists and the Detectives (1876) Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives...
Cover of New Perspectives on Detective Fiction
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity,...
Cover of Complete Mystery Detective Anthologies of Anna Katharine Green (14 in 1)
by Anna Katharine Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel." This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. The Leavenworth...
Cover of Talking About Detective Fiction
by P. D. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. P. D. James...
Cover of Complete Dr. John Thorndyke Mystery Detective Forensic Investigator Anthologies
by Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014

British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. His first stories were written in collaboration with Dr. John James Pitcairn [1860–1936], medical officer at Holloway Prison and published under the nom de plume "Clifford Ashdown"....
Cover of Sherlock Holmes e l'avventura del detective scomparso
by Gary Lovisi
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2016

RACCONTO LUNGO (43 pagine) - GIALLO - Il mondo sotto il controllo di Moriarty... Holmes ci racconta la sua versione di ciò che gli è realmente accaduto mentre lo si credeva morto alle cascate di Reichenbach e il suo incredibile viaggio in un'Inghilterra alternativa. Questa Inghilterra e questa...
Cover of Carolyn Wells' Mystery Story Technique for Writers

Carolyn Wells' Mystery Story Technique for Writers

A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection

by Midwest Journal Writers' Club, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Carolyn Wells
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie? Do you ever yearn to be a good writer of mysteries? This is virtually a miniature course in creative writing of the mystery story. Originally published in 1913, this was...
Cover of Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
by Laird R. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019

Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) was—with his partner Manfred Lee—the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen—both a pen name and the fictional protagonist...
Cover of Detective Anthology: Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Poirot, and More (Fast Navigation with NCX and TOC)
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Better Bible Bureau
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

Table of Contents The Complete Sherlock Holmes A STUDY IN SCARLET PART 1 Chapter 1  MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES Chapter 2  THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION Chapter 3  THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY Chapter 4  WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL Chapter 5  OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR Chapter...
Cover of The Crime Novel

The Crime Novel

A Deviant Genre

by Tony Hilfer
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail....
Cover of Complete Mystery Detective Novels of Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the world's most widely published books. According...
Cover of Mysteries Unlocked

Mysteries Unlocked

Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene

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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover...
Cover of Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016)
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal...
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