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The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

Hardcover • 1999 • English

The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

By Rosemary Herbert

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About the book

From the penny dreadful, which challenges seekers of sensation to discover the truth in a pattern of gory details; to the twentieth-century detective novel, which offers an intricate puzzle solved through the application of the intellect; to the crime novel, which probes the psyches of the characters, the crime and mystery genre offers readers an intellectual excitement unsurpassed by other forms of fiction. Now The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing provides scholars and fans of this...Show more

Classic crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Crime and mystery: police procedural

Book details

ISBN

9780195072396

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

Format

Hardcover

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