The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
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Quayle, Eric, The Collector’s Book of Detective Fiction (London: Studio Vista, 1972)
Queen, Ellery, Queen’s Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story (US, Biblo & Tannen, rev.ed. 1969)
Reynolds, Barbara, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (London: Hodder, 1993)
Routley, Erik, The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story (London: Gollancz, 1972)
Scott, Sutherland, Blood in their Ink: The March of the Modern Mystery Novel (London, Stanley Paul, 1953)
Stewart, A.W., Alias J.J. Connington (London: Hollis & Carter, 1947)
Symons, Julian, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel (London: Faber, 1972, rev. eds. 1985, 1992)
Symons, Julian, The 100 Best Crime Stories (London: Sunday Times, 1956)
Thomson, H. Douglas, Masters of Mystery: A Study of the Detective Story (London: Collins, 1931)
Turnbull, Malcolm J., Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox (Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1996)
Van Hoeven, Marianne, ed., Margery Allingham: 100 Years of a Great Mystery Writer (London: Lucas, 2003)
Various authors, Meet the Detective (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935)
Walsdorf, John J., Julian Symons: A Bibliography (Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St. Paul’s Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, 1996)
Watson, Colin, Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and their Audience (rev. ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1971, rev. ed. 1979)
Whittle, David, Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
CADS, an irregular magazine edited by Geoff Bradley, has been crammed with interesting information about classic crime fiction for more than thirty years. I have also learned a great deal from members of the Golden Age Detection Facebook group, and from the excellent blogs specialising in classic crime fiction listed at www.doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/.
Acknowledgements
Writing is usually a solitary activity, but all authors depend on the support of others, and I am very grateful for the help that I have received from a wide range of people. I must thank my editor, Rob Davies, and his colleagues at the British Library for their enthusiasm and support throughout the writing of this book, and their work on the indexes, as well as my agent, James Wills. Barry Pike and Nigel Moss, two friends who have forgotten more about classic crime fiction than most of us will ever know, were kind enough to comment on a draft of this book, and Nigel also read through the final draft; their input unquestionably improved it. Family members and other heirs of several of the authors whose books are published in the British Library’s Crime Classics series have proved to be invaluable sources of information. I have benefited from the help of so many friends and fellow enthusiasts for classic crime that it is almost invidious to highlight a few individuals, but I must express my particular appreciation of the expertise and support of Jamie Sturgeon, John Cooper, Lyndsey Greenslade, Mark Sutcliffe, James M. Pickard, Arthur Robinson, Geoff Bradley, John Norris and Douglas G. Greene, who have provided books, illustrations and other information with their customary generosity.
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