Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters

Author:   Jon L. Breen ,  Martin Greenberg, New York State Association of Auxiliary Police, Inc.
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
ISBN:  

9780810822320


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   01 September 1989
Format:   Hardback
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Contributors and their subjects include Donald E. Westlake on Peter Rabe, Loren D. Estleman on Donald Hamilton, Bill Crider on Harry Whittington, Marvin Lachman on Ed Lacy, Max Allan Collins on Jim Thompson, Jon L. Breen on Vin Packer, George Kelley on Marvin H. Albert, Ed Gorman on Charles Williams, Will Murray on Don Pendleton and the Executioner series, and Dick Lochte on Warren Murphy. Each essay concludes with a checklist of the book titles discussed.

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Author:   Jon L. Breen ,  Martin Greenberg, New York State Association of Auxiliary Police, Inc.
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780810822320


ISBN 10:   0810822326
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   01 September 1989
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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...a necessity for those who do not believe that the history of mystery fiction ended with Mickey Spillane, and that everything since his time can be lumped together as 'contemporary' and dismissed. The Armchair Detective Each writer covered here deserves renewed attention...A very interesting book. Coast Book Review Service ...an excellent book... Paperback Parade The materials for...a history of popular taste are what Jon L. Breen and Martin Harry Greenberg offer us... Modern Fiction Studies A smart beginning into the publishing history of the paperback mystery originals and their authors. Murder Ad Lib


...a necessity for those who do not believe that the history of mystery fiction ended with Mickey Spillane, and that everything since his time can be lumped together as 'contemporary' and dismissed. * The Armchair Detective * Each writer covered here deserves renewed attention...A very interesting book. * Coast Book Review Service * ...an excellent book... * Paperback Parade * The materials for...a history of popular taste are what Jon L. Breen and Martin Harry Greenberg offer us... * Modern Fiction Studies * A smart beginning into the publishing history of the paperback mystery originals and their authors. * Murder Ad Lib *


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Jon L. Breen, Professor / Librarian at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, CA, is the author of four novels, most recently Touch of the Past (Walker, 1988), and a double Edgar winner in the biographical / critical category for What About Murder? and Novel Verdicts (Scarecrow, 1981, 1984). Martin Harry Greenberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, is the editor of hundreds of short story anthologies, most of them in the science fiction or mystery fields.

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