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this is a truly original volume with an unusual premise...this book is a must for those with a serious interest in detective fiction. Highly recommended --Choice; his research will revise, and enrich, all our thinking about the history of the detective story --The Washington Post; one of the most readable, prolific, and perceptive academic scholars of mystery fiction...few academic mystery scholars are as readable and learned and surely none is as prolific as Panek...indispensable --Mystery Scene.

this is a truly original volume with an unusual premise...this book is a must for those with a serious interest in detective fiction. Highly recommended --<i>Choice</i>; his research will revise, and enrich, all our thinking about the history of the detective story --<i>The Washington Post</i>; one of the most readable, prolific, and perceptive academic scholars of mystery fiction...few academic mystery scholars are as readable and learned and surely none is as prolific as Panek...indispensable --<i>Mystery Scene</i>.

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The late LeRoy Lad Panek, professor emeritus of English at McDaniel College (and “One of the most readable, prolific, and perceptive academic scholars of mystery fiction”—Mystery Scene and Edgar Award winner), was the author of a number of books about detective fiction. He lived in Westminster, Maryland.

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