Title: The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
Description: "Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."
--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Encyclopedias, Crime in literature, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, dictionaries, Roman policier, Encyclopedies, Criminalite? dans la litterature, Misdaadverhalen