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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 62
Page 504
... secret and the significance of her lawyer's murder make all the seemingly disconnected events meaningful that the latent structure of the work becomes manifest and the novel achieves the kind of closure associated with the classics of ...
... secret and the significance of her lawyer's murder make all the seemingly disconnected events meaningful that the latent structure of the work becomes manifest and the novel achieves the kind of closure associated with the classics of ...
Page 614
... secret service . Bond beats him at baccarat and Le Chiffre is ruined . In Moonraker , however , Hugo Drax's ambition is to destroy the city of London with an atomic missile . In Goldfinger ( 1959 ) , the title character wants to steal ...
... secret service . Bond beats him at baccarat and Le Chiffre is ruined . In Moonraker , however , Hugo Drax's ambition is to destroy the city of London with an atomic missile . In Goldfinger ( 1959 ) , the title character wants to steal ...
Page 626
... Secret Agent , 1934 ; The Ebony Box , 1934 ; The Eleventh Hour , 1935 ; Todmanhawe Grange , 1937 ( with Torquemada ; also as The Mill House Murder ) . OTHER NOVELS : Old Lattimer's Legacy , 1892 ; The Death That Lurks Unseen , 1899 ...
... Secret Agent , 1934 ; The Ebony Box , 1934 ; The Eleventh Hour , 1935 ; Todmanhawe Grange , 1937 ( with Torquemada ; also as The Mill House Murder ) . OTHER NOVELS : Old Lattimer's Legacy , 1892 ; The Death That Lurks Unseen , 1899 ...
Common terms and phrases
Adventures amateur sleuth Analysis appears become Bibliography Biography Blackshirt born Brandstetter British Caleb career Cleek clues Count of Monte-Cristo crime crime fiction criminal critics Daly Dantès Dashiell Hammett Dead Death detective fiction detective fiction SERIES detective novel detective story Doderer Dostoevski Doyle Droste-Hülshoff Eberhart Edgar Allan Poe England English espionage father Fleming Futrelle Gamadge Gardner genre Hammett Hanshew Henry hero House humor James Bond Jemima Shore John killed Lady later Lecoq literary lives London Lovejoy magazine major works NOVELS married Maybridge murder mystery and detective mystery fiction mystery novels Mystery Writers narrative narrator never NONFICTION person play police procedural Pollifax popular Principal mystery Principal series characters private investigator protagonists psychological published puzzle reader Review romance secret Shadow Shayne Sherlock Holmes SHORT FICTION short stories Solar Pons solve suspense Thorndyke thriller tion Types of plot Van der Valk victim wife William woman writing wrote young