Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books - Hardcover

Keating, H. R. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881843458 ISBN 13: 9780881843453

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1987

Synopsis

Traces the growth of the mystery genre and selects what he considers to be the top one hundred, giving a perceptive and informative account of each

About this title

From the Back Cover:

H.R.F.Keating, well-known as a crime writer himself and critic for The Times, has done crime and mystery fans a great service in creating this book, his choice of the hundred best of the genre.

From Library Journal:

This is a remarkably balanced and highly entertaining collection of essays reflecting one writer's ideas about what constitutes the best in crime and mystery fiction. The two-page essays extend from Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination through P.D. James's A Taste for Death , forming a sort of history of the genre. Each essay contains a synopsis of the plot or theme, a critical assessment, and a list of first and recent editions. Keating, a prolific mystery writer, seems an ideal choice to compile such a work, and his wit and intelligence make these essays as much fun as they are informative.Lonnie Beene, West Texas State Univ. Lib., Canyon
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0881843458
• ISBN 13: 9780881843453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219