Mystery Story
Series: Mystery Library
Publisher: Bookthrift Co
Published: June 1983
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9789997654359
Subjects: Addresses, essays, lectures; Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Murder at large / John Ball --; title: The mystery story in cultural perspective / Aaron Marc Stein --; title: The mystery versus the novel / Hillary Waugh --; title: The amateur detectives / Otto Penzler --; title: The private eye / James Sandoe --; title: Women in detective fiction / Michele Slung --; title: The ethnic detective / John Ball --; title: The police procedural / Hillary Waugh --; title: Locked rooms and puzzles: a critical memoir / Donald A. Yates --; title: The spy in fact and fiction / Michael Gilbert --; title: Gothic mysteries / Phyllis A. Whitney --; title: Death rays, demons, and worms unknown to science / Robert E. Briney --; title: Patterns in mystery fiction: the durable series characters / Allen J. Hubin --; title: The great crooks / Otto Penzler --; title: Name games: mystery writers and their pseudonyms / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. --; title: Why do we read this stuff? /E. T. Guymon, Jr. --; title: The literature of the subject: an annotated bibliography / Robert E. Briney.