Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons

Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

Julian Symons

349 pages first pub 1972 (view editions)

nonfiction history mystery informative mysterious slow-paced
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When it appeared in 1972 'Bloody Murder' was greeted as the classic study of crime fiction, a book "heartily recommended to anyone who has ever enjoyed a detective story or a crime novel" as Kingsley Amis wrote. Subsequent edition ensured that thi...

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