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The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing( )
Editor: Herbert, Rosemary
Aird, Catherine
Reilly, John M.
Oleksiw, Susan
ISBN:978-0-19-507239-6
Publication Date:Dec 1999
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

From the penny dreadful, which challenges seekers of sensation to discover the truth in a pattern of gory details; to the twentieth-century detective novel, which offers an intricate puzzle solved through the application of the intellect; to the crime novel, which probes the psyches of the characters, the crime and mystery genre offers readers an intellectual excitement unsurpassed by other forms of fiction. Now The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing provides scholars and...
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Book Details
Pages:560
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.8 x 9.2 x 2 Inches
Book Weight:2.2 Pounds



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