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 527
... police station so that he can explain his snooping . This scene also shows his compulsion to confess . Often the murder mystery focuses on the detective's exposure of the murderer and the murderer's bold confession , which comes as a ...
... police station so that he can explain his snooping . This scene also shows his compulsion to confess . Often the murder mystery focuses on the detective's exposure of the murderer and the murderer's bold confession , which comes as a ...
Page 765
... mystery / detective fiction and science fiction . He is the only writer ever to win a Mystery Writers of America Award for a science - fiction novel ( After Things Fell Apart , 1970 ) . Even his " conventional " mystery / detective ...
... mystery / detective fiction and science fiction . He is the only writer ever to win a Mystery Writers of America Award for a science - fiction novel ( After Things Fell Apart , 1970 ) . Even his " conventional " mystery / detective ...
Page 824
... detective novel , virtually all detective fiction had been designed on the pattern established by Edgar Allan Poe in three short stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin : " The Murders in the Rue Morgue , " " The Mystery of ...
... detective novel , virtually all detective fiction had been designed on the pattern established by Edgar Allan Poe in three short stories featuring the detective C. Auguste Dupin : " The Murders in the Rue Morgue , " " The Mystery of ...
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