Bloody murder: from the detective story to the crime novel : a historyThis history of the various forms and masters of the mystery genre follows the trail through the first pinnacle of detection in the Master Detective stories of the 1930s up to the present |
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Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition | 9 |
The Guilty Party | 11 |
What They Are and Why We Read Them | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Bloody murder: from the detective story to the crime novel : a history |
| Author | Julian Symons |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Viking, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Apr 15, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0670800961, 9780670800964 |
| Length | 261 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective |
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