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The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

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Crime In
Detective And Mystery
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0195072391
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Catherine Aird

"Catherine Aird is the pseudonym of novelist Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories." - Wikipedia

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It was a cold and wintry afternoon in Oxford, England, when the editors of the then nascent volume which would come to be known as The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing concluded the meeting that would lay the groundwork for this book...

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"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities." --"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.

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