Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story by Howard Haycraft

Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story

Howard Haycraft

410 pages first pub 1941 (editions)

nonfiction crime mystery reference informative mysterious medium-paced

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Author Howard Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s. Along the way, he charts the innovations of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the modern inf...

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