Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion

by Dilys Winn

Book Overview

Perfect book for the mystery lover. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894800043
• ISBN13: 9780894800047
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Murder Ink

This book answers tons of questions for mystery addicts. For mystery novices there is: the history of the mystery from Poe to the present; a subject guide to mysteries; the ten most overrated mystery stories of all time; how to behave at a mystery writer's autograph party; lists of the Pulitzer & Nobel Prize winners who wrote mysteries. For the true crime buffs there are articles on every aspect of forenisics, from dentistry to anthropology; confessions of hangmen and assistant DA's; tailing techniques of a private eye & memoirs of a house dick; visits to the barristers wigmaker and a Scotland Yard's Black Museum; tours to mystery locations in new York and London. Over 150 original, entertaining, & illustrated articles by eminent mystery writers, teachers, psychiatrists, scientists, ex-spies, and fans in totally unrelated fields make Murder Ink the lst word about murder fiction.

A Mystery Must

Whether you love a good hard-boiled or classic who-done-it, this book is for you. Murder Ink covers all aspects of the mystery genre from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Cristie, the history of the Scotland yard, famous mystery quotes, rules on writing ransom notes, famous villians, red herrings, and the mystery in film and on stage. Both the British and the American mystery novel are covered, along with a good deal of matrial from France and other European countries. I've been reading mysteries and mystery "companion" books for a long time and never have I found one so comprehensive.