An edition of The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing (1999)

The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

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An edition of The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing (1999)

The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing

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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
535

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Subjects

Detective and mystery stories, Encyclopedias, Crime in literature, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories, dictionaries, Roman policier, Encyclopedies, Criminalite? dans la litterature, Misdaadverhalen

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The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing
1999, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Genre
Encyclopedias.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.3/872/03
Library of Congress
PN3448.D4 H37 1999, PN3448.D4H37 1999, PN3448.D4 O94 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 535 p. ;
Number of pages
535

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OL35876M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780195072396
ISBN 10
0195072391
LCCN
99021182
OCLC/WorldCat
40830308
Library Thing
274297
Goodreads
993011

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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."
--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

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