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BINYON, T.J. (Timothy John), 1936-2004 : 'MURDER WILL OUT' : THE DETECTIVE IN FICTION. Oxford : Oxford University Press, (1989). First edition. A scholarly history of the fictional detective, from Dupin, Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes through to the moderns – with discussion of types, professional amateurs, amateur amateurs, policemen of various kinds, the private eye from Williams to Warshawski, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26661 – or simply click on the button
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KEATING, H.R.F. (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter), 1926-2011 – editor : WHODUNIT? A GUIDE TO CRIME, SUSPENSE AND SPY FICTION. London : Windward, (1982). First edition. Essays on Crime Fiction and its Categories by Michael Gilbert, Reginald Hill, Keating himself, Jessica Mann, Hillary Waugh and others – on How I Write My Books by Eric Ambler, Len Deighton, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, P. D. James, Keating again, and others, with a consumers’ guide, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41314 – or simply click on the button
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OUSBY, Ian (Ian Vaughan Kenneth), 1947-2001 : BLOODHOUNDS OF HEAVEN : THE DETECTIVE IN ENGLISH FICTION FROM GODWIN TO DOYLE. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (1976). Third printing of the original 1976 edition. A thoughtful study of the early fictional detectives – with much on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emile Gaboriau, William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, William Russell (Waters), Eugène-Francois Vidocq, etc. SOLD |
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RODELL, Marie F. (Marie Freid), 1912-1975 : MYSTERY FICTION : THEORY AND TECHNIQUE. London : Hammond, Hammond & Co., (1954). First British edition. An interesting guide to literary craftsmanship from the well-known literary agent – with chapters on clues, suspense, taboos, plotting, etc. With an introduction by Maurice Richardson. “One of the most entertaining textbooks ever written” (Vincent Starrett). £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26368 – or simply click on the button
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"SCOTT, Sutherland" – [HOWEY, William Clunie] : BLOOD IN THEIR INK : THE MARCH OF THE MODERN MYSTERY NOVEL. London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1953). First edition. With much on John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, Mignon Eberhart, Austin Freeman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, C. Daly King, A. E. W. Mason, Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, etc. With a foreword by A. Beverley Baxter. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24764 – or simply click on the button
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STEWART, R.F., 1936- : - AND ALWAYS A DETECTIVE : CHAPTERS ON THE HISTORY OF DETECTIVE FICTION. Newton Abbot & North Pomfret : David & Charles, (1980). First edition. With much on H. C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Emile Gaboriau, James McGovan, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24758 – or simply click on the button
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SYMONS, Julian (Julian Gustave), 1912-1994 : BLOODY MURDER. FROM THE DETECTIVE STORY TO THE CRIME NOVEL : A HISTORY. Harmondsworth : Viking, (1985). Second edition : an extensively revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26371 – or simply click on the button
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SYMONS, Julian (Julian Gustave), 1912-1994 : BLOODY MURDER. FROM THE DETECTIVE STORY TO THE CRIME NOVEL. New York : Mysterious Press, (1993). Third American edition : a revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre, adding a highly interesting 36pp "Postscript for the Nineties". £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26372 – or simply click on the button
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WATSON, Colin, 1920-1983 : SNOBBERY WITH VIOLENCE : ENGLISH CRIME STORIES AND THEIR AUDIENCE. London : Eyre Methuen, (1979). Second edition : a slightly revised version of Watson’s interesting 1971 study of the crime story as the mirror of its times and social attitudes. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26373 – or simply click on the button
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