Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385478275 ISBN 13: 9780385478274

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995

Synopsis

Brings together African American detective fiction from a wide variety of authors, from the earliest mystery story written by an African American, to stories from the Harlem Renaissance, to contemporary authors like Walter Mosley

About this title

About the Author:

In addition to editing Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, which received a citation for "Outstanding Contribution to Publishing" from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Paula L. Woods is the coauthor of I, Too, Sing America; The African American Book of Days and coeditor of I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love, which won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Multicultural Literature and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Fiction Honors. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post, among other newspapers. Cofounder of a general consulting firm, Woods/Liddell Group, and a book packaging and marketing firm, Livre Noir, she lives in Los Angeles, California.
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From the Inside Flap:

Spies, and Private Eyes is "a fascinating guide to black mystery fiction and its subgenres from early in the century to the present" (Emerge magazine). Within these pages Paula L. Woods has gathered an outstanding array of new, long-lost, or never-before-published fiction, ranging from Pauline E. Hopkins's classic locked-room mystery story "Talma Gordon," originally published by Colored American Magazine in 1900, to a new piece of short fiction by bestselling author Walter Mosley.

From the earliest mystery story written by an African American to fiction by modern mainstream authors such as BarbaraNeely, Eleanor Taylor Bland, and Aya de Leon, the pieces in this anthology comprise "a landmark collection no library of crime fiction should be without" (Kirkus Reviews).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385478275
• ISBN 13: 9780385478274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Woods Paula L.