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Title: The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by Rosemary Herbert, Catherine Aird, John M. Reilly, Susan Okeksiw, Susan Oleksiw ISBN: 0195072391 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Top notch reference
Comment: As is true of any encyclopedic work, there will be quarrels with what is included and what is not. Nevertheless, this is a highly readable, well organized book. It is accessible to scholars and more casual fans as well. Every college library should have this book. Stylistically and typographically it could be improved, but that would have sent costs even higher. The essays are well-done and the authors of the essays are respected, knowledgeable people. This is just a fine piece of work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Useful
Comment: This book has been helpful in learning about crime and mystery fiction. It is great for current terms, history, and even authors. Everyone from novices to experts who love or are just learning to love the genre could use this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of fun, but what happened to the proofreaders?
Comment: Informative, fascinating, great fun. This book includes an enormous variety of topics, expected and not, such as occult mysteries, feminism, religion, politics, conservative and radical world-views, gays and lesbians, country house mysteries, fairy tales. It is more comprehensive, and has a more objective tone, than Bruce Murphy's "Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery." There are extensive cross-references. Too bad the editors didn't hire some proofreaders and fact checkers. The book is riddled with typographical errors, misspellings and factual mistakes. Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone is consistently misspelled "Milhone." In one instance, Margery Allingham's "The Crime at Black Dudley" is attributed to Ngaio Marsh. In another, Dorothy Gilman's 1975 book "A Nun in the Closet" is credited to Sister Carol Anne O'Marie. I hope these errors will be corrected in a later edition.
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery by Bruce F. Murphy ISBN: 031229414X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553801309 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery by Robert J. Ray, Jack Remick ISBN: 0440506581 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Howdunit: How Crimes Are Committed and Solved (Howdunit) by John Boertlein ISBN: 1582970157 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Cause of Death : A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine (Howdunit Series) by Keith D. Wilson ISBN: 0898795249 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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