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The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

By Bruce F. Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
031229414X, 9780312294144
Google Books ID
l2hsQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL9669626M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35352029 bytes)
Pages
558\558
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
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Description

The world of mystery and crime fiction has been the subject of a numerous recent reference tomes, from Willetta Heisings excellent Detecting Women and Detecting Men to The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. The former books are notable for their comprehensive cataloging of contemporary writers, and the latter succeeds by its reliance on a diverse range of authorities. But Bruce Murphys The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is much more a readers book. Murphy is himself a bibliophile to be reckoned with, as editor of Benets Readers Encyclopedia and writer for Critical Inquiry and the Paris Review. What he brings to his reference work, however, is not just the requisite expertise but also a sense of his audience, an attention to prose style, and a passion for mystery as a genre. He writes in his introduction: «The crime story is about consequences.

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