Bloody Murder
Subtitle: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: February 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780892964963
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Novels, other prose & writers; Mystery & Detective Fiction; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Symons, Julian - Prose & Criticsm; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Crime in literature; Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; Mystery and detective stories
First sentence: The first problem facing anybody writing about crime fiction is to stake out the limits of the theme.