Mystery Fanfare

Mystery Fanfare

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  • Author: Michael L. Cook
  • Publisher: Popular Press
  • ISBN: 9780879722302
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 456

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.


American Mystery and Detective Novels

American Mystery and Detective Novels

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  • Author: Larry Landrum
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313003270
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.


Native American Mystery Writing

Native American Mystery Writing

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  • Author: Mary Stoecklein
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1498585787
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156

This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.


100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors

100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors

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  • Author: Bernard A. Drew
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1598844466
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 450

Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authors—without any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.


Double Trouble

Double Trouble

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  • Author: Sheldon Jaffery
  • Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
  • ISBN: 1557421188
  • Category : Antiques & Collectibles
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 150

It was the 1950s in postwar America, and paperback books were the hot new product in the publishing industry. Of course, to stand out from the crowd and sell, one needed a gimmick. Into this newly exuberant market came a publishing house named Ace Books, with the seductive promise of two books for the price of one. It also had the eye-catching premise of two separate covers, joined at the spine like Siamese twins. Finished with one book? Flip the paperback over and begin again with a new novel, complete with its own package. It was something completely different -- and it sold! "Double Trouble" tours the short yet popular era of the Ace Mystery Doubles, and includes both author-title and title indexes for easy reference.


Crime Writers

Crime Writers

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  • Author: Elizabeth Haynes
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1591589193
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

This invaluable resource provides information about and sources for researching 50 of the top crime genre writers, including websites and other online resources. Crime Writers: A Research Guide is an easy-to-use launch pad for learning more about crime fiction authors, including those who write traditional mystery novels, suspense novels, and thrillers with crime elements. Emphasizing the best and most popular writers, the book covers approximately 50 contemporary authors, plus a few classics like Agatha Christie. Each entry provides a brief quotation that gives some indication of writing style; a biographical sketch; lists of major works and awards; and research sources, including websites, biographies, criticism, and research guides. There are also read-alikes for selected authors. Of special note is the inclusion of websites and other online resources, such as blogs and social networking sites, which are often overlooked in author-reference sources. The book also provides an overview of the genre and subgenres, a timeline, and a comprehensive bibliography. An ideal resource for genre studies and literature classes, this guide will also be invaluable to readers' advisors, book club leaders, students, and genre fans.


Murder in the Marais

Murder in the Marais

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  • Author: Cara Black
  • Publisher: Soho Press
  • ISBN: 1569477272
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Meet Aimée Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first investigation Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an elderly Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she is expecting. She drops off her findings at her client’s house in the Marais, Paris’s historic Jewish quarter, and finds the woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.


Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction

Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction

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  • Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale
  • Publisher: McFarland
  • ISBN: 0786475366
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 572

Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are reaching international audiences through film and television adaptations. This reference guide introduces the world of Nordic crime fiction to English-speaking readers. Caught between the demands of conscience and societal strictures, the detectives in these stories--like the heroes of Norse mythology--know that they and their world must perish, but fight on regardless of cost. At a time of bleak eventualities, Nordic crime fiction interprets the bitter end as a celebration of the indomitable human spirit.


Bach to Brahms

Bach to Brahms

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  • Author: David Beach
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • ISBN: 1580465153
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Bach to Brahms presents current analytic views by established scholars of the traditional tonal repertoire, with essays on works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. The fifteen essays are divided into three groups, two of which focus primarily on the interaction of elements of musical design (formal, metric, and tonal organization) and voice leading at multiple levels of structure. The third group of essays focusses on the "motive" from different perspectives. The result is a volume of integrated studies on the music of the common-practice period, a body of music that remains at the core of modern concert and classroom repertoire. Contributors: Eytan Agmon, David Beach, Charles Burkhart, L. Poundie Burstein, Yosef Goldenberg, Timothy Jackson, William Kinderman, Joel Lester, Boyd Pomeroy, John Rink, Frank Samarotto, Lauri Suurpää, Naphtali Wagner, Eric Wen, Channan Willner. David Beach is professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Recent publications include Advanced Schenkerian Analysis, and Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition/ (co-authored with Ryan McClelland). Yosef Goldenberg teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he also serves as head librarian. He is the author of Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008) and published in leading journals on music theory and on Israeli music.


Marriage, God's Idea

Marriage, God's Idea

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  • Author: Peggy Hagoski
  • Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
  • ISBN: 1627871209
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 118

Marriage is God's idea, and it's not easy. Romance soon fades as a new spring flower. Suddenly, you're back to the chore of daily living. Yet, with Christ as the "three-fold cord of your marriage," married life becomes a little bit of heaven on earth. See why as you read these charming poems and experience the life journey of ninety-three-year-old Peggy Hagoski. She experienced life as a young bride of sixteen, as a married woman for thirty years, and as a widow for forty-five years.