Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
by Mark Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
With the recent successes of Robert Downey, Jr. on the big screen and Benedict Cumberbatch on TV, the popularity of Sherlock Holmes is riding high and here is the essential guideWho is Holmes? The world's most famous detective, a drug addict with a heart as cold as ice, or a millstone around the...
Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint...
Connecting Detectives
The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett,...
by L. David Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1978
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Murder 101
Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight into how the reader may apply such strategies to his or her own courses. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the essays cover teaching in the areas of literature, law, history, sociology, anthropology,...
The Sherlock Holmes Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Sherlock Holmes Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, tackles the most "elementary" of subjects--the world of Sherlock Holmes, as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Sherlock Holmes Book is packed with witty illustrations, clear graphics, and...
by Roberto Porcù
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Carissimi lettori, il mio nome è Roberto Fantini e sono la voce narrante che vi accompagnerà durante tutto questo racconto. Ho iniziato non a caso con la parola carissimi che oggi va tanto di moda, anche se la mia ignoranza non mi consente appieno di comprendere l’esatto significato di questo...
In Pursuit of Spenser
Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers,...
by Grace Livingston Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Contents
The Man of the Desert (1914)
Lo, Michael! (1913)
The War Romance of the Salvation Army (1919)
The Witness (1917)
Exit Betty (1919)
The City of Fire (1922)
The Girl from Montana (1922)
The Search (1919)
Marcia Schuyler (1908)
Dawn of the Morning (1911)
The Mystery of Mary (1910)
Cloudy Jewel...
Gun in Cheek
An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
"This is fabulously funny stuff." — John D. MacDonald
"Bill Pronzini surveys the worst crime fiction — not just the average inferior product, but the junk classics, works that achieve a heroic degree of badness. No brief summary can do justice to Mr. Pronzini's researches."...
Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)
An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction: 1860-1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.
by Phillips Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
An English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.
Table of Contents
The Great Impersonation (1920)
The Zeppelin's Passenger (1918)
Anna the Adventuress (1904)
The Avenger (1908)
The Cinema Murder (1917)
Jacob's Ladder (1921)
Berenice (1907)
An...
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction: 1860-1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.
Look at the popularity of such reading guides as...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
A French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. A widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,...