To return to this sets' summary click Overview. For the general product directory, click Directory. Articles Honoré de Balzac Chester Himes Sara Paretsky Dorothy L. Sayers Other Elements Index Table of Contents If you need help with products and ordering, setting up a new account or working with this website, call or email us: Phone: (800) 221-1592 Email: csr@salempress.com. Arranged alphabetically by author, the essays are detailed and readable enough for the average mystery lover, who may be looking to learn more about beloved characters or favorite authors. Yet they are also scholarly enough for the academic interested in subtleties of plot and character development. For those doing detailed research, this is an excellent starting point that also directs the researcher to other resources....While none of these essays is the final or most complete word on any of these authors, the book as a whole is the only reference a library would need to answer basic questions or quell readers' curiosity about top mystery writers. Library Journal   Highly recommended for all libraries, this well-written update of Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, ed. by Frank N. Magill (CH, Sep'98), will satisfy any library that needs recent reference information on mystery writers, their works, and principal characters. The essays are enjoyable and informative, the format straightforward, and the bibliographies for authors such as Wilkie Collins include modern sources likely to be available to readers using smaller collections. Choice   The set is recommended for large reference collections seeking comprehensive coverage of the genre and especially for smaller collections looking for something relatively inexpensive, but well done, to fill a gap. American Reference   Books Annual

Editor: Fiona Kelleghan, University of Miami ISBN: 978-0-89356-958-7 List Price: $104 July 2001 · 2 volumes · 757 pages · 6"x9" 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction Table of Contents Contents — Volume 1 Publisher’s Note, vii List of Contributors, ix Introduction, xiii Margery Allingham, 1 Eric Ambler, 8 Honoré de Balzac, 15 E. C. Bentley, 23 Anthony Berkeley, 29 Earl Derr Biggers, 36 Robert Bloch, 42 Lawrence Block, 48 Anthony Boucher, 55 Christianna Brand, 61 John Buchan, 67 W. R. Burnett, 75 James M. Cain, 83 John Dickson Carr, 90 Nick Carter, 98 Vera Caspary, 111 Raymond Chandler, 117 Leslie Charteris, 127 James Hadley Chase, 135 G. K. Chesterton, 141 Erskine Childers, 149 Agatha Christie, 154 Wilkie Collins, 164 John Creasey, 171 Amanda Cross, 183 Len Deighton, 191 Fyodor Dostoevski, 199 Arthur Conan Doyle, 207 Daphne du Maurier, 217 Mignon G. Eberhart, 224 Stanley Ellin, 230 Robert L. Fish, 235 Ian Fleming, 241 Frederick Forsyth, 248 Dick Francis, 253 Nicolas Freeling, 258 R. Austin Freeman, 264 Erle Stanley Gardner, 271 Michael Gilbert, 278 Graham Greene, 287 Martha Grimes, 294 Dashiell Hammett, 301 O. Henry, 310 Patricia Highsmith, 318 Tony Hillerman, 326 Chester Himes, 333 Edward D. Hoch, 340 E. W. Hornung, 347 Michael Innes, 353 P. D. James, 359 Harry Kemelman, 367 Contents — Volume 2 Baynard H. Kendrick, 375 John le Carré, 381 Elmore Leonard, 390 Gaston Leroux, 396 Richard Lockridge and Frances Lockridge, 403 Marie Belloc Lowndes, 410 Robert Ludlum, 417 Ed McBain, 424 James McClure, 431 John D. MacDonald, 437 Ross Macdonald, 443 William P. McGivern, 449 Helen MacInnes, 455 Ngaio Marsh, 460 Margaret Millar, 467 E. Phillips Oppenheim, 474 Baroness Orczy, 480 Sara Paretsky, 487 Robert B. Parker, 494 Elizabeth Peters, 502 Ellis Peters, 511 Edgar Allan Poe, 519 Bill Pronzini, 527 Ellery Queen, 537 Ruth Rendell, 546 Mary Roberts Rinehart, 553 Lawrence Sanders, 561 Dorothy L. Sayers, 569 Georges Simenon, 579 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, 593 Martin Cruz Smith, 601 Mickey Spillane, 608 Robert Louis Stevenson, 615 Mary Stewart, 621 Rex Stout, 627 Julian Symons, 635 Josephine Tey, 644 Ross Thomas, 650 Jim Thompson, 657 Lawrence Treat, 663 S. S. Van Dine, 670 Robert H. Van Gulik, 677 Edgar Wallace, 684 Joseph Wambaugh, 692 Hillary Waugh, 700 Patricia Wentworth, 706 Donald E. Westlake, 712 Cornell Woolrich, 721 Israel Zangwill, 728 Glossary, 733 Time Line of Authors, 747 Index of Series Characters, 751 List of Authors by Plot Type, 755

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