TY - BOOK ID - 929855 TI - The Oxford companion to crime and mystery writing AU - Herbert, Rosemary AU - Aird, Catherine AU - Reilly, John M. AU - Oleksiw, Susan PY - 1999 SN - 0195072391 9780195072396 0199891079 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Comparative literature KW - Thematology KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Crime in literature KW - Crime KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Detectives KW - Mystery stories KW - Fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories - Encyclopedias KW - Crime in literature - Encyclopedias UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:929855 AB - "Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001. ER -