Killer Books : a Reader's Guide to Exploring the Popular World of Mystery and Suspense

Swanson, Jean; James, Dean

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ISBN 10: 0425162184 ISBN 13: 9780425162187

Published by Berkley Publishing Group, New York, Ny, U. S. A., 1998

Language: English

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Killer Books : a Reader's Guide to Exploring the Popular World of Mystery and Suspense

Publisher

Berkley Publishing Group, New York, Ny, U. S. A.

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0425162184

ISBN 13

9780425162187

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Trade Paperback

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First Edition.

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Very Good

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A guide to the mystery genre uses readers' tastes in subject matter, genre, movies, and TV shows to discover which mystery writers they will most enjoy

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Grade 9 Up?The authors of By a Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction (Berkley, 1996) have produced another guide to mysteries that is sure to send teens to libraries and bookstores with a long list of books they just have to read. Each chapter covers a different subgenre: private eyes, historical mysteries, etc., and includes a wide variety of authors with a fairly detailed description of their writing style, series, and character(s). For each subgenre, there are overviews, books for further reading, and a list of films and television shows. Scattered throughout are asides, e.g., mysteries with musical themes or a listing of authors of detectives who like to fish. Titles are indexed by character, geographic location, and author. Libraries that own Willetta L. Heising's Detecting Women (1994), Detecting Women 2 (1996), and Detecting Men (1997, all Purple Moon) will find that Killer Books complements but does not replace those titles. A fun-to-read introduction to mysteries, this can be enjoyed on its own or used as a readers' advisory tool.?Peggy Bercher, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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