Title: Mystery Lover's Companion
Description: Rating guide to 2,500 mysteries and detective stories.  Rating guide to 2,500 mysteries and detective stories.  This includes an A-Z encyclopedia of authors, divided into categories such as "American", "English", "Thriller" and "Police Procedural". Contains a short synopsis and/or opinion of each by Bourgeau, and a rating system of from one to five daggers.