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MURPHY, Bruce F THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MURDER AND MYSTERY
New York St Martin's Minotaur 1999 0312215541 / 9780312215545 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
xiv+543pp. A massive A-Z of whodunnit and how it was done. The author discusses the classic practitioners such as Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, P.D. James, along with newer talents such as Patricia Cornwell, James Ellroy, Mary Higgins Clark plus authors ordinarily considered to be outside the mystery genre. This fine encyclopedia answers all the questions about the fictional detectives, their origins and famous cases and also looks at books based on factual crimes such as Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, Oscar Slater, the Boston Strangler, Crippen, Clutter Murders of 1959, Murder of Sir Edmund Gofrey in 1678 and many more. A mine of information for the reader of both fictional and true crime literature. Bibliography.
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40.00 GBP
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