Essays on Detective Fiction
By: edited by Bernard Benstock.
Contributors: Benstock, Bernard, 1930-
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Death Deferred: The Long Life, Splendid Afterlife and Mysterious Workings of Agatha Christie by David I. Grossvogel
pagenum: 1; title: Dorothy L. Sayers: Mystery and Demystification by Bruce Merry
pagenum: 18; title: Rereading Ngaio Marsh by Allan J. Dooley and Linda J. Dooley
pagenum: 33; title: Dashiell Hammett and the Poetics of Hard-Boiled Detection by James Naremore
pagenum: 49; title: A Knock at the Backdoor of Art: The Entrance of Raymond Chandler by Leon Arden
pagenum: 73; title: Ross Macdonald and the Past of a Formula by Eric Mottram
pagenum: 97; title: P. D. James by Bruce Harkness
pagenum: 119; title: How Unlike the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen: The Detective Fiction of Peter Lovesey by James Hurt
pagenum: 142; title: The Van der Valk Novels of Nicolas Freeling: Going by the Book by Carol Shloss
pagenum: 159; title: Simenon and 'Le Commissaire' by Pierre Weisz
pagenum: 174; title: The Education of Martin Beck by Bernard Benstock
pagenum: 190