Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
Maigret's World
A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Georges Simenon’s 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective—but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone...
by Dick Adler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Lewis in the New York Times Book Review called it...
by Mark Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
An informed introduction to the Christie phenomenon, updated to include new material on the final Poirot adaptation series and Sophie Hannah's The Monogram MurdersSince her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder...
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
A Bloody Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. While the relation between detective fiction and its setting has been extensively analysed in the Anglo-American...
Detecting Wimsey
Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction
by Nancy-Lou Patterson
edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft
Table of Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations for Dorothy L. Sayers's Fiction
Introduction: Nancy-Lou Patterson's Wimsical...
Jolly Good Detecting
Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of...
P.D. James
A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
British National Health Service employee Phyllis Dorothy James White (1920–2014) reinvented herself at age 38 as P.D. James, crime novelist. She then became long known as England’s “Queen of Crime.” Sixteen of her 20 novels feature one or both of her series detectives, Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland...
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes NO 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
BY
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary...
Hard-Boiled Anxiety
The Freudian Desires of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Their Detectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. 'Curl up on the analyst's couch with all your favorite mystery scribes, as Karen Huston Karydes sleuths out the neurotic, personal threads that make up the warp and the weft of their greatest fictions. A dark, yet illuminating read.' - Kim Cooper,...
From Holmes to Sherlock
The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Winner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction work
A finalist for the Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work
A finalist for the Anthony Award for best critical/nonfiction work
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character...
by Anna Katharine Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The story is about Ebenezer Gryce, a young, energetic and determined police detective who is entrusted with the investigation of the high-profile murder of Mr. Hasbrouck, a wealthy and influential resident of the Colonnade in Lafayette Place.
This book is not long but we can only tell you that it is short but very interesting!
by Gary J. Hausladen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading...
Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº8
Winter 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The second anniversary issue of a mystery magazine which Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised for its “solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”.
Our Issue Nº8: Winter 2019...
"G" is for Grafton
The World of Kinsey Millhone
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Revised and updated through "O" Is for Outlaw, the Edgar Award Winner for Best Biographical Work is the essential reader's companion to the world of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone
With the cooperation of Sue Grafton, who provided unprecedented access to her working journals, authors...