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Free Download Otto Steinbrunner, Chris & Penzler, "Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection"
English | ASIN : B000OLCCT2 | 1976 | EPUB | 11 MB
FOR THE FIRST TIME-a fascinating, comprehensive, authoritative reference guide to one of today's favorite forms of writing and entertainment. Biographies of the principal practitioners of mystery and detective writing are supplemented with information on the motion pictures, plays, radio and TV series, and telefeatures based on their works or their fictional creations. Also included are delightful "biographies" of the great fictional detectives, their sidekicks, and their chief criminal adversaries-plus carefully researched articles on such subjects as dime novels, pulp magazines, comic art detectives, radio and television detectives, and collecting detective fiction.The writers-more than 500 of them-range from Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... to Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, S. S. Van Dine, Ellery Queen, and Agatha Christie ... right up to Dick Francis, Ed McBain, John le Carré, and Ross Macdonald. Mainstream writers, such as Balzac, Dostoevski, Dickens, O. Henry, and Faulkner, are covered for their contributions to detective fiction or their influence on the development of the genre.