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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... career as a writer of detective fiction , adopting her mother's maiden name , Ferrars , as her pseudonym . Besides ... career , Ferrars continued to produce a similar type of story . Her writing career lasted for more than forty - five ...
... career as a writer of detective fiction , adopting her mother's maiden name , Ferrars , as her pseudonym . Besides ... career , Ferrars continued to produce a similar type of story . Her writing career lasted for more than forty - five ...
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... career . ( The work appeared in the United States under the title The Shape of a Stain . ) Its main character , Toby Dyke , has the odd habit of turning up when friends of his have just been murdered . He seems at first to be a member ...
... career . ( The work appeared in the United States under the title The Shape of a Stain . ) Its main character , Toby Dyke , has the odd habit of turning up when friends of his have just been murdered . He seems at first to be a member ...
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... career , especially in his penchant for mixing mystery / detective and sci- ence fiction . Goulart enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1951 and received a bachelor of arts in 1955. After college , he began a career ...
... career , especially in his penchant for mixing mystery / detective and sci- ence fiction . Goulart enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1951 and received a bachelor of arts in 1955. After college , he began a career ...
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