Mystery and Crime Stories

This list presents a sample of the books available at Collier Library that are about mystery and crime stories. Look for others in the online catalog, UNACAT.

 

Bibliography:

Breen, Jon L. What About Murder? A Guide to Books about Mystery and Detective Fiction. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1981.

REF Z 5917 .D5 B73

 

Dictionary/Encyclopedia:

Steinbrunner, Chris and Otto Penzler. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

REF PN 3448 .D4 E5

 

History and Criticism:

Aisenberg, Nadya. A Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1979.

PR 830 .C74 A4

Bailey, Frankie Y. Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture. 27. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

PS 374 .D4 B34 1991

Benvenuti, Stefano. The Whodunit: An Informal History of Detective Fiction. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1980.

PN 3448 .D4 B4713 1980

Charney, Hanna Kurz. The Detective Novel of Manners: Hedonism, Morality, and the Life of Reason. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981.

PN 3448 .D4 C44

Lambert, Gavin. The Dangerous Edge. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

PN 3448 .D4 L33 1976

Mann, Jessica. Deadlier Than Male: Why Are Respectable English Women So Good at Murder?. New York: Macmillan, 1981.

PR 830 .D4 M3

Ousby, Ian. Bloodhounds of Heaven: the Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976.

PR 868 .D4 O9

Porter, Dennis. The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

PN 3448 .D4 P58

Winks, Robin W. Modus Operandi: An Excursion into Detective Fiction. Boston: D. R. Godine, 1981.
PN 3448 .D4 W5

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