Crimes of the scene
Subtitle: a mystery novel guide for the international traveler
By: Nina King with Robin Winks and other contributers
Contributors: Winks, Robin W.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780312151744
Subjects: Setting (Literature); Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism
Description: Offers "lists and reviews of mystery novels that are set in countries around the world. ... Each of the twenty-one chapters opens with a brief, entertaining essay that describes how an area's cultural and political climate impacts that area's crime fiction. Also included in several of the chapters are lists of noteworthy books in the original language."--Jacket.
Notes: "A Thomas Dunne book."

Includes index.