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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Page 454
... Crime , 1951 . Other major work NOVEL : The Street Has Changed , 1941 . Bibliography Barzun , Jacques , and Wendell Hertig Taylor . A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction , 1950-1975 , 1983 ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
... Crime , 1951 . Other major work NOVEL : The Street Has Changed , 1941 . Bibliography Barzun , Jacques , and Wendell Hertig Taylor . A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction , 1950-1975 , 1983 ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
Page 508
... crime - fiction stereotypes in that they are multifaceted , vivid , and sometimes comical . Dickinson's characters and settings come very close to genuine fantasy at times , and he has been called by some critics " the Tolkien of ...
... crime - fiction stereotypes in that they are multifaceted , vivid , and sometimes comical . Dickinson's characters and settings come very close to genuine fantasy at times , and he has been called by some critics " the Tolkien of ...
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... crime fiction , and the dual characters in the Droste - Hülshoff story suggest the inner struggle between good and evil within the self . As the horrible Mr. Hyde takes over the personality of the benevolent Dr. Jekyll , the criminal ...
... crime fiction , and the dual characters in the Droste - Hülshoff story suggest the inner struggle between good and evil within the self . As the horrible Mr. Hyde takes over the personality of the benevolent Dr. Jekyll , the criminal ...
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