Mystery and Crime
Author | : Jay Pearsall |
Publisher | : GuildAmerica Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781568651323 |
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Author | : Jay Pearsall |
Publisher | : GuildAmerica Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781568651323 |
Author | : Jay Pearsall |
Publisher | : Touchstone Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A gathering of more than 1,000 interesting, clever, and hilarious questions and answers about the world of mystery fiction for the ever-inquisitive mystery, crime, and suspense fan by the owner of New York bookstore, Murder Ink.
Author | : Jay Pearsall |
Publisher | : Touchstone |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671872373 |
From Simon & Schuster, Mystery & Crime is Jay Pearsall's book of answers from The New York Public Library book of answers, offering intriguing and entertaining questions and answers about the who's who and what's what of whodunits. Mystery & Crime is more than one thousand pieces of trivia for mystery, crime, and suspense fans includes teasers about famous authors, favorite characters, and elusive plots.
Author | : John Charles |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838993915 |
With several well-chosen booklists, practical programming ideas, and a brand new compendium of print and web-based resources, your only crime would be not adding this guide to your collection!
Author | : John Charles |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780838908112 |
Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.
Author | : Jim Fisher |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0813538823 |
If you have ever stared a page that remains stubbornly blank; if you have ever wondered why writers write, or whether good writers are born or made; if you are a novelist, playwright, poet, or journalist, or simply delight in the written word, The Writer's Quotebook is for you. Whether you keep it in your office, on your coffee table, next to your keyboard or your bed, this rich compendium of over one thousand quotations will inspire, invigorate, and illuminate the often challenging, sometimes humorous, but always fascinating task of those who bring words to life. From William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway to Doris Lessing and Joyce Carol Oates, more than five hundred published writers put pen to paper on what the literary life is all about. Selections come from seasoned professionals as well as those just establishing their voice, and they represent a variety of nationalities and genres. The book is divided into three sections. The first part is devoted to the creative process, including thoughts on where writers get their ideas, the role of inspiration, what kind of people write, and where talent comes from. In part two, the subject shifts to writing as a craft. Here, authors ponder the creation of protagonists and points of view, the writing of dialogue, setting and description, creating plots, and the anatomy of style. The final third of the book deals with the challenges and rewards that come with the writing life. Subjects in this section include the economic realities of writing, classes, conferences, and workshops, dealing with rejection and bad reviews, writing habits and rituals, despair, alcohol, suicide, and fame. Articulated with elegant metaphor, in straightforward prose, or with wry wit, the carefully selected and thoughtfully organized quotations come together to form a narrative that entertains, informs, and in the case of aspiring writers, shows the way to better writing.
Author | : Terry White |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313052573 |
White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason. The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Larry N. Landrum |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.
Author | : Cornelius Lehane |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250009960 |
This novel "opens with a murder in a second floor office of the iconic, beaux-arts flagship of the New York Public Library. Ray Ambler, the curator of the library's crime fiction collection, joins forces with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove in hopes of bringing a murderer to justice. In his search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler uncovers hidden--and profoundly disturbing--relationships between visitors to the library. These include a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library's crime fiction collection, that writer's missing daughter, a New York society woman with a hidden past, and one of Ambler's colleagues at the world-famous library"--]cProvided by publisher.