The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES | 13 |
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 21 |
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The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity ... Waltraud Woeller No preview available - 1988 |
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