The mystery writer's art / Francis M. Nevins, Jr., editor.

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Published: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1971, c1970]
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: The contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, by R. A. W. Lowndes
  • Poe and the tradition of the detective story, by J. R. Christopher
  • Who shall ever forget? By E. Queen
  • Sax Rohmer: an informal survey, by R. E. Briney
  • R. Austin Freeman: the invention of inversion, by N. Donaldson
  • Henry Wade, by C. Shibuk
  • The poetics of the private eye: the novels of Dashiell Hammett, by R. I. Edenbaum
  • The Drury Lane quartet, by F. M. Nevins, Jr
  • The firm of Cool and Lam, by F. E. Robbins
  • Hitchcock's Psycho, R. Wood
  • High and low, by D. Richie
  • Six mystery movies and their makers, by W. K. Everson
  • The black mask school, by P. Durham
  • The grandest game in the world, by J. D. Carr
  • Detection and the literary art, by J. Barzun
  • The Janus resolution, by F. D. McSherry, Jr
  • An essay of locked rooms, by D. A. Yates
  • The detective as metaphor in the nineteenth century, E. L. Gilbert
  • The writer as detective hero, by R. Macdonald
  • The detective story as a historical source, by W. O. Aydelotte
  • The shape of crimes to come, F. D. McSherry, Jr.