Murder for pleasure
Subtitle: the life and times of the detective story
By: by Howard Haycraft, with an introduction by Nicholas Blake
Publisher: Peter Davies
Published: 1942
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Mystery fiction; History and criticism; Bibliography
Notes: "Some reading about the detective story": p. 279-297.  "A detective story bookshelf": p. 298-311.
Table of contents: title: 1. Mystery matures: the higher criticism --; title: 2. The rules of the game --; title: 3. Care and feeding of the whodunit --; title: 4. The lighter side of crime --; title: 5. Critics' corner --; title: 6. Detective fiction vs. real life --; title: 7. Putting crime on the shelf --; title: 8. Watchman, what of the night?; title: Mystery Matures: The Higher Criticism --; title: A Defence of Detective Stories / G.K. Chesterton --; title: The Art of the Detective Story / R. Austin Freeman --; title: Crime and Detection / E.M. Wrong --; title: The Great Detective Stories / Willard Huntington Wright --; title: The Omnibus of Crime / Dorothy L. Sayers --; title: The Professor and the Detective / Marjorie Nicolson --; title: Masters of Mystery / H. Douglas Thomson --; title: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes / Vincent Starrett --; title: Murder for Pleasure / Howard Haycraft --; title: "Only a Detective Story" / Joseph Wood Krutch --; title: The Rules Of The Games --; title: Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories / S.S. Van Dine --; title: Detective Story Decalogue / Ronald A. Knox --; title: The Detection Club Oath --; title: Care And Feeding Of The Whodunit --; title: The Case of the Early Beginning / Erle Stanley Gardner --; title: Gaudy Night / Dorothy L. Sayers --; title: The Simple Art of Murder / Raymond Chandler --; title: Murder Makes Merry / Craig Rice --; title: Trojan Horse Opera / Anthony Boucher --; title: Dagger of the Mind / James Sandoe --; title: Clues / Marie F. Rodell --; title: The Locked-Room Lecture / John Dickson Carr --; title: Command Performance / Lee Wright --; title: Mystery Midwife: The Crime Editor's Job / Isabelle Taylor --; title: Hollywoodunit / Richard Mealand --; title: There's Murder in the Air / Ken Crossen --; title: The Lighter Side Of Crime --; title: Watson Was a Woman / Rex Stout --; title: Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You / Ogden Nash --; title: The Pink Murder Case / Christopher Ward --; title: Murder at $2.50 a Crime / Stephen Leacock --; title: Everything Under Control / Richard Armour --; title: The Whistling Corpse / Ben Hecht --; title: Oh, England! Full of Sin / Robert J. Casey --; title: Murders and Motives / E.V. Lucas --; title: Murder on Parnassus / Pierre Very. Critics' Corner --; title: The Life of Riley / Isaac Anderson --; title: Battle of the Sexes: The Judge and His Wife Look at Mysteries / "Judge Lynch" --; title: How to Read a Whodunit / Will Cuppy --; title: Four Mystery Reviews --; title: The Ethics of the Mystery Novel / Anthony Boucher --; title: Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? / Edmund Wilson --; title: The Detective Story: Why? / Nicholas Blake --; title: Leaves from the Editors' Notebook / Ellery Queen --; title: Detective Fiction vs. Real Life --; title: From the Memoirs of a Private Detective / Dashiell Hammett --; title: Inquest on Detective Stories / R. Philmore --; title: The Lawyer Looks at Detective Fiction / J.B. Waite --; title: The Crux of a Murder: Disposal of the Body / F. Sherwood Taylor --; title: Putting Crime On The Shelf --; title: Collecting Detective Fiction / John Carter --; title: The Detective Short Story: The First Hundred Years / Ellery Queen --; title: Readers' Guide to Crime / James Sandoe --; title: Watchman, What Of The Night? --; title: The Passing of the Detective in Literature --; title: A Sober Word on the Detective Story / Harrison R. Steeves --; title: The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley / Philip Van Doren --; title: The Whodunit in World War II and After / Howard Haycraft.