title: Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors (4 Volume Set)
author: Frank N. Magill
description: Magill's name has long been associated with critical surveys (e.g., in poetry, drama, and literary theory) and with the Masterplots series. This survey meets the standard of scholarly, in-depth analysis set by its predecessors. In a genre that continues to explode in popularity, this survey is a cornerstone of research and background material. It encompasses 280 authors who are synonymous with the genre, have made significant contributions to it, or have contributed to the genre though they are associated with another. Each entry is divided into several elements: basic personal information; principal series; description of main characters in each series; explanation of author's contribution to the genre; a 2500-word analysis of the principal works and characters; and a bibliography of mystery and of nonmystery works. The last volume contains a glossary of detective/mystery terms, indexes of subgenre and series characters, and an author/title/term index. Authors are listed by their mystery-genre pseudonym (e.g., Gore Vidal is listed as Edgar Box), but the index crossreferences pseudonyms with the author's better-known names. The information here is valuable, concise, and easy to find.<br /><i>- Martin J. Hudacs, Towanda H.S., Pa.</i><br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  THE LOST
  
  
  CHILDREN
  
  
  An absolutely gripping killer thriller with a huge twist
  
  
  
  
  
  Book 2 Detective Ray Paterson
  
  
  
  
  
  STEVE PARKER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Published 2018
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations,
  places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental. The spelling used is British English
  except where fidelity to the author’s rendering of accent or dialect
  supersedes this. The right of Steve Parker to be identified as author of this
  work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
  Patents Act 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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