The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 5) September-October 1983

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 5) September-October 1983
Author: Guy M. Townsend
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434406407

The Mystery Fancier, Volume 7 Number 5, September-October 1983, contains: "Bleeding the Fun Out," by Fred Isaac, "German Secondary Literature," by Greg Goode and "The Crime Story in Sweden," by K. Arne Blom.

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 4) July-August 1983

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 4) July-August 1983
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434406393

The Mystery Fancier, Volume 7 Number 4, July-August 1983, contains: "The Complexity of The Nine Tailors," by Joe R. Christopher, "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIV," by Barry Van Tilburg and "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard," by Earl F. Bargainnier.

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 3) May-June 1983

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 3) May-June 1983
Author: Guy M. Townsend
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434406385

The Mystery Fancier, Volume 7 Number 3, May-June 1983, contains: "Closing the Gap: A Critique," by John Nieminski, "The Fattest Man in the Medical Profession," by Bob Sampson and "Deadly Edges of the Gay Blade," by Martha Alderson.

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879724153

For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of the detective. Included here are both the amateur and professional detective, female investigators, deducting doctors, brilliant amateurs, and equally brilliant professional police. There are private detectives reflecting Holmes and hard-boiled cops from the parallel traditions of realism and melodramatic fantasy. Characters include Brady and Riordan, Terry Trimble, Glamorous Nan Russell, J. G. Reeder, plus many others.

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 1) January-February 1983

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 1) January-February 1983
Author: Guy M. Townsend
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434406369

The Mystery Fancier, Volume Seven Number One, January-February 1983, contains: "Captain Joseph T. Shaw's Black Mask Scrapbook," by E. R. Hagemann, "Detection by Other Means," by Bob Sampson, "Joe Orton's and Tom Stoppard's Burlesques of the Detective Genre," by Earl F. Bargainnier, "Bloody Balaclava: Charlotte MacLeod's Campus Comedy Mysteries," by Jane S. Bakerman and "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIII," by Barry Van Tilburg.

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 6) November-December 1983

The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 6) November-December 1983
Author: Mickey Spillane
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1434406415

Volume 7 Number 6 of The Mystery Fancier, November-December 1983, contains: "A Few Kind Words for Ashton-Kirk," by Bob Sampson, "The Violent World of Mike Hammer," by Jim Traylor, "The Old Man in the Corner," by Earl F. Bargainnier and "C. B. Greenfield: The Metaphor is the Man," by Jane S. Bakerman.

Mystery Fanfare

Mystery Fanfare
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780879722302

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.

Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction

Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction
Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476622779

Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are reaching international audiences through film and television adaptations. This reference guide introduces the world of Nordic crime fiction to English-speaking readers. Caught between the demands of conscience and societal strictures, the detectives in these stories--like the heroes of Norse mythology--know that they and their world must perish, but fight on regardless of cost. At a time of bleak eventualities, Nordic crime fiction interprets the bitter end as a celebration of the indomitable human spirit.

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll
Author: John Pascoe
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476675465

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. She worked alongside such greats as Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton, British directors Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock, and Hollywood directors John Ford and Otto Preminger. She also did radio and television shows--all of which she abandoned to become a Red Cross worker. Piecing together long-lost facts, the author describes Carroll's almost indescribable life, narrating her personal highs and lows, as well as her fervent commitment to helping others--particularly child victims of war.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
Author: Joel Myerson
Publisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Group
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.