An edition of The Mystery Story
(1983)
Mystery Story
by John Ball and Robert E. Briney
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Selected essays by mystery authors and critics on the mystery story as fiction.
Publish Date
June 1983
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Bookthrift Co
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Table of Contents
Murder at large / John Ball --
The mystery story in cultural perspective / Aaron Marc Stein --
The mystery versus the novel / Hillary Waugh --
The amateur detectives / Otto Penzler --
The private eye / James Sandoe --
Women in detective fiction / Michele Slung --
The ethnic detective / John Ball --
The police procedural / Hillary Waugh --
Locked rooms and puzzles: a critical memoir / Donald A. Yates --
The spy in fact and fiction / Michael Gilbert --
Gothic mysteries / Phyllis A. Whitney --
Death rays, demons, and worms unknown to science / Robert E. Briney --
Patterns in mystery fiction: the durable series characters / Allen J. Hubin --
The great crooks / Otto Penzler --
Name games: mystery writers and their pseudonyms / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. --
Why do we read this stuff? /E. T. Guymon, Jr. --
The literature of the subject: an annotated bibliography / Robert E. Briney.
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| December 29, 2019 | Created by M C W | Corrected author name, added contents ref WorldCat |