Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2Frank Northen Magill Salem Press, 1988 - 1748 pages Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. |
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... British pub names , when she was struck with a vision of her future : writing mysteries set in and around British pubs . Loving both British mysteries and England itself , she saw the pub as the symbolic heart of British daily life and ...
... British pub names , when she was struck with a vision of her future : writing mysteries set in and around British pubs . Loving both British mysteries and England itself , she saw the pub as the symbolic heart of British daily life and ...
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... British company in order to have access to new British discoveries in radar , while Slow Burner ( 1958 ) , Venetian Blind ( 1959 ) , Yesterday's Enemy ( 1976 ) , and The Meritocrats ( 1985 ) concern a security leak of restricted nuclear ...
... British company in order to have access to new British discoveries in radar , while Slow Burner ( 1958 ) , Venetian Blind ( 1959 ) , Yesterday's Enemy ( 1976 ) , and The Meritocrats ( 1985 ) concern a security leak of restricted nuclear ...
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... British joke about detective fiction- " the butler did it . " Hare often provides the reader with a clue to the mystery by means of a reference to a book . In An English Murder , the clue is Lord Rosebery's Pitt , a biography of British ...
... British joke about detective fiction- " the butler did it . " Hare often provides the reader with a clue to the mystery by means of a reference to a book . In An English Murder , the clue is Lord Rosebery's Pitt , a biography of British ...
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