The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
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"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.
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