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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... novels quickly enter a world of circumstance that tests their mental and physical prowess . Many of the novels are propelled forward by first the perplexing mysteries and second the protagonists ' subsequent ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
... novels quickly enter a world of circumstance that tests their mental and physical prowess . Many of the novels are propelled forward by first the perplexing mysteries and second the protagonists ' subsequent ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
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... novels more successful than early efforts . She uses , however , similar techniques in both her police - procedural and her later psychological mysteries . Her plots are complex and take surprising turns ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
... novels more successful than early efforts . She uses , however , similar techniques in both her police - procedural and her later psychological mysteries . Her plots are complex and take surprising turns ... Mystery and Detective Fiction.
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... Mystery Writers of America 1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award . This work was ... novels , in 1979 , The Devil's Alternative , a novel set in 1982 which ... mystery novels , Forsyth has had published No Comebacks ( 1982 ) , a collection of his ...
... Mystery Writers of America 1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award . This work was ... novels , in 1979 , The Devil's Alternative , a novel set in 1982 which ... mystery novels , Forsyth has had published No Comebacks ( 1982 ) , a collection of his ...
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