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Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing Paperback - 2003

by Rosemary Herbert; Preface by Dennis Lehane

A mystery expert investigates how the giants of the genre pull off all those crimes and keep the twists coming page after page, then shows readers how they can do it too.

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Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their
themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual
entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.

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Abner, Uncle. One of six detectives created by Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner is a squire in the western counties of Virginia in the time of Thomas Jefferson.

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  • Title Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing
  • Author Rosemary Herbert; Preface by Dennis Lehane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2003-05-08
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195157611 / 0195157613
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.68 x 6.06 x 0.82 in (22.05 x 15.39 x 2.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Crime in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002029791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.387

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2004, Page 876
  • USA Today, 10/08/2003, Page 1

About the author


Rosemary Herbert is book review editor and mystery book review columnist for the Boston Herald. She edited The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (with Tony Hillerman), Murder on Deck! Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories, and Twelve American
Crime Stories. She is also the author of The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews with Mystery Writers. A former reference librarian at Harvard University, she created a course on detective fiction at Tufts University.
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