1st US edition, August, 1991, top and fore edge of pages are spotted and browning else about fine in dust jacket. 100 famous mystery writers examine their favorite fictional investigators. "Julian Symons on Sam Spade, Paula Gosling on Rex Stout, Loren D. Estleman on Philip Marlowe, Anne Hart on Hercule Poirot--and 96 other mystery writers on favorite literary detectives, each limned in a short essay appended by a bibliography and edited by Jakubowski (ed., New Crimes, 1990). Mystery lovers will enjoy these generous, generally upbeat homages--many written with appropriate stylistic flourish (e.g., Linda Semple presents her essay on V.I. Warshawski as a ``Surveillance Report'')--and, no doubt, will discover new detectives to pursue, such as Ed Lacy's 1950's black private eye, Toussaint Marcus Moore, profiled here by John Williams." Kirkus Review.

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Title

100 GREAT DETECTIVES: Or The Detective Directory

Publisher

Carroll & Graf, N.Y.

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0881847291

ISBN 13

9780881847291

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Book Type

Book

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A collection of essays offers a celebration of fiction's greatest sleuths, including Julian Symonds writing on Sam Spade and H. R. F. Keating on Sherlock Holmes

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