Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Subtitle: A History
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: July 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780140072631
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Mystery and detective stories; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: The first problem facing anybody writing about crime fiction is to stake out the limits of the theme.