Most Bailey stories more or less “work” as fair-play classical detective stories, while many Father Brown tales are more semantic word games or philosophical paradoxes disguised as detection. In the long run, however, Chesterton seems ...
This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery...
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery ...
Best Detective Stories of the Year 1929 (1930; U.S. title Best English Detective Stories of 1929), anonymously edited, followed with a more star-studded lineup (Anthony Berkeley and G. K. Chesterton plus Leblanc, Oppenheim, ...
This early work by Richard Austin Freeman was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Mystery of 31 New Inn' is one of Freeman's novels of crime and mystery.
For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell...
19 Mystery Tales of Dr. Thorndyke & Others R. Austin Freeman. probable that the police had communicated with Molly. He might even find them at the house and become involved in the inquiries. But the very thought of any kind of contact ...
New York: Pocket Books. Queen, Ellery, ed. 946. To the Queen's Taste. ... Masterpieces of Mystery: The Golden Age 2. Davis Publications. ... The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes. New York: Carroll & Graf.
Examined in this study of mystery writers are Anthony Berkeley / Francis Iles, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Freeman Wills Crofts, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar...
Provides indexes to American and British mystery novels by author, title, subject, setting, and characters.