The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing /

The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Herbert, Rosemary.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 535 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories -- Encyclopedias.
Crime in literature -- Encyclopedias.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories.
Encyclopedia
encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12357433
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Other authors / contributors:Aird, Catherine.
Reilly, John M. (John Marsden)
ISBN:9780199891078
0199891079
0195072391
9780195072396
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"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
Other form:Print version: Herbert, Rosemary. Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195072391

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