Shortlisted for Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards 2008 (Category: Critical/Biographical) Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Work of 2007 'Connecting the threads of textuality, context, theme and significance, this is a masterful account of crime f...

This book is both an education and a joy..fresh insights into books published as recently as 1999. ChoiceHans Bertens is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. Theo D'haen is Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University....

In Lee Horsley's commanding survey of a century of crime fiction, the reader, teacher or scholar will find a familiar historical trajectory: a quick summary of Sherlock Holmes and his contemporaries leads into the classic clue puzzle, which contrasts with the hard-boile...

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Crime Files)...

Renee W. Craig-Odders is professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The author of several articles and books on Spanish detective fiction, she lives in Plover, Wisconsin. Jacky Collins is a senior lecturer in Spanish Studies at Northumbria Univer...

Cody's ( Under Contract ) first departure from her series featuring private investigator Anna Lee proves again that she is a gifted writer. Poverty-stricken Ethiopia and its inhabitants are the vivid setting for this provocative thriller that showcases her deft, sparse ...

The debut of detective Georgia Lee Maxwell is an all-around delight. Forty and restless, Georgia leaves her unsatisfying job as a society writer in Bay City, Fla., for an insecure but exciting position as a free-lancer in Paris for a slick New York magazine. She gets mu...

Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matt...

Selected from previously published stories, the five mysteries in Hansen's collection are ingenious but quite different from his novels about the gay private eye, Brandstetter. Here the chief character is retired sheriff Hank Bohannon, owner-manager of a California hors...

Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matt...