Encyclopedia Mysteriosa - a Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in Print, Film, Radio, and Television
Language: English
Published by Prentice Hall General Reference, New York, 1994
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition. Articles arranged alphabetically. Comprehensive reference to the entire genre of murder and mayhem draws on 150 years of crime stories. 4to. Black cloth and boards. 405 pages. Appendix with directories of organizations for the mystery devotee, mystery booksellers and lists of major award-winning writers honored with Edgars and Diamond Daggers. Ex-lib with some stamps and labels otherwise very clean and sharp. Dust jacket. near Fine/ near fine.
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- Title
- Encyclopedia Mysteriosa - a Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in Print, Film, Radio, and Television
- Author
- DeAndrea, William L.
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall General Reference, New York
- Publication year
- 1994
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671850253
- ISBN 13
- 9780671850258
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- General #1
Written and edited by two-time Edgar Award winner William L. DeAndrea, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa contains biographies of old and new writers and their memorable characters, as well as detailed entries on contributions to the genre on radio, television, and film. The evolution of the literature of detection progresses from the nineteenth-century master sleuths - Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter - to the Golden Age when Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie produced their perennially popular stories. Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot can be found cheek-to-cheek with the hard-boiled detectives created by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and with the characters and writers who played out the espionage explosion of the sixties and seventies. You'll also find entries devoted to the current wave of women private eyes, a subgenre that was pioneered by Marcia Muller - the founding mother of the American female hard-boiled private eye - and continues with the popular alphabet mysteries of Sue Grafton. No story is too convoluted and no character is too small - you'll even find television and film detectives Maxwell Smart and Basil, the Great Mouse Detective.
An appendix provides directories of organizations for the mystery devotee, mystery booksellers, and lists of major award-winning writers honored with Edgars and Diamond Daggers. All entries are copiously cross-referenced to assure easy access.
For every would-be sleuth and armchair detective, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa is the complete reference to the entire genre of murder and mayhem.
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