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050 00 $aPR888.D4$bH47 1994
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100 1 $aHerbert, Rosemary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93046625
245 14 $aThe fatal art of entertainment :$binterviews with mystery writers /$cRosemary Herbert.
260 $aNew York :$bG.K. Hall ;$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axviii, 351 pages :$bportraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aForeword / Antonia Fraser -- Julian Symons -- Sue Grafton -- P. D. James -- Tony Hillerman -- John Mortimer -- Patricia D. Cornwell -- Jonathan Gash -- Reginald Hill -- Jane Langton -- Robert Barnard -- Jeremiah Healy -- Catherine Aird -- Barbara Neely.
520 $aWhat kind of mind can create the intricate and intriguing world of the mystery novel - the human puzzle, the tangle of motivation, deception, and death? What drives a superior author to turn to crime and mystery rather than to mainstream literary fiction? During her thirteen years of interviewing authors, writer and photographer Rosemary Herbert has posed these questions to distinguished crime writers.
520 8 $aNow in The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews with Mystery Writers, Herbert provides answers in a volume that will introduce anyone from the literary scholar to the mystery fan to the talented, calculating, and witty minds that commit murder on the printed page, much to the entertainment and fascination of millions of readers. In a unique collection of interviews, Herbert provides three types of portraits of each of thirteen authors: a photographic likeness; an essay describing each author's personality, place in the crime writing genre, and the environment of the interview; and a conversational visit that enables the reader to feel personally acquainted with each author. These revealing interviews with such luminaries as P. D. James, Tony Hillerman, John Mortimer, Sue Grafton, Julian Symons, and Patricia D.
520 8 $aCornwell will be a source of valuable information and considerable enjoyment to the researcher and the avid mystery reader alike.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, English$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108460
650 0 $aNovelists, English$y20th century$vInterviews.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103904
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories$xAuthorship.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102220
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR888.D4$iH47 1994