Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime Detection and Espionage. Set
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Annotation,The Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 16 sets comprising this series.This 2-vol. set on mystery, detective and espionage fiction covers, in 84 articles, some of the most influential and popular writers of the genre. Each original, signed article is the ideal bio-critical introduction to its subject. Furnishing both a look at the author's background and a genuine critical analysis of the major novels and stories, the articles range from seven to 20 pages. These engaging essays provide substantial treatments of major mystery authors and of such subgenres as the police procedural, the spy novel and the whodunit.

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