The mystery writer's art.
By: Francis M. Nevins, Jr., editor.
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, by R. A. W. Lowndes.; title: Poe and the tradition of the detective story, by J. R. Christopher.; title: Who shall ever forget? By E. Queen.; title: Sax Rohmer: an informal survey, by R. E. Briney.; title: R. Austin Freeman: the invention of inversion, by N. Donaldson.; title: Henry Wade, by C. Shibuk.; title: The poetics of the private eye: the novels of Dashiell Hammett, by R. I. Edenbaum.; title: The Drury Lane quartet, by F. M. Nevins, Jr.; title: The firm of Cool and Lam, by F. E. Robbins.; title: Hitchcock's Psycho, R. Wood.; title: High and low, by D. Richie.; title: Six mystery movies and their makers, by W. K. Everson.; title: The black mask school, by P. Durham.; title: The grandest game in the world, by J. D. Carr.; title: Detection and the literary art, by J. Barzun.; title: The Janus resolution, by F. D. McSherry, Jr.; title: An essay of locked rooms, by D. A. Yates.; title: The detective as metaphor in the nineteenth century, E. L. Gilbert.; title: The writer as detective hero, by R. Macdonald.; title: The detective story as a historical source, by W. O. Aydelotte.; title: The shape of crimes to come, F. D. McSherry, Jr.