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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... Hanshew's inventiveness in plotting and his love of the bizarre and exotic influenced later writers , especially Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr . Biography Thomas W. Hanshew's writing life divides into two sections . Until the turn ...
... Hanshew's inventiveness in plotting and his love of the bizarre and exotic influenced later writers , especially Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr . Biography Thomas W. Hanshew's writing life divides into two sections . Until the turn ...
Page 837
... Hanshew , however , admired those of high birth and disliked those who spent their lives in " workshops [ which ] vomited their hordes of wage - workers out upon the muddy pavement . " The major exception was the Cockney , whom Hanshew ...
... Hanshew , however , admired those of high birth and disliked those who spent their lives in " workshops [ which ] vomited their hordes of wage - workers out upon the muddy pavement . " The major exception was the Cockney , whom Hanshew ...
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... Hanshew is seldom read anymore , and his sleuths seem unalterably part of another era , but The Man of the Forty ... Hanshew and Hazel Phillips Hanshew ) ; Cleek's Greatest Riddles , 1916 ( with Mary E. Hanshew and Hazel Phillips Hanshew ...
... Hanshew is seldom read anymore , and his sleuths seem unalterably part of another era , but The Man of the Forty ... Hanshew and Hazel Phillips Hanshew ) ; Cleek's Greatest Riddles , 1916 ( with Mary E. Hanshew and Hazel Phillips Hanshew ...
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