Title: The mystery writer's art.
Authors: Nevins, Francis M.
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Year: 1971
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism.; Popular literature English-speaking countries History and criticism.
Contents: The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, by R. A. W. Lowndes.--Poe and the tradition of the detective story, by J. R. Christopher.--Who shall ever forget? By E. Queen.--Sax Rohmer: an informal survey, by R. E. Briney.--R. Austin Freeman: the invention of inversion, by N. Donaldson.--Henry Wade, by C. Shibuk.--The poetics of the private eye: the novels of Dashiell Hammett, by R. I. Edenbaum.--The Drury Lane quartet, by F. M. Nevins, Jr.--The firm of Cool and Lam, by F. E. Robbins.--Hitchcock's Psycho, R. Wood.--High and low, by D. Richie.--Six mystery movies and their makers, by W. K. Everson.--The black mask school, by P. Durham.--The grandest game in the world, by J. D. Carr.--Detection and the literary art, by J. Barzun.--The Janus resolution, by F. D. McSherry, Jr.--An essay of locked rooms, by D. A. Yates.--The detective as metaphor in the nineteenth century, E. L. Gilbert.--The writer as detective hero, by R. Macdonald.--The detective story as a historical source, by W. O. Aydelotte.--The shape of crimes to come, F. D. McSherry, Jr.