Murder Off the Rack
Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters
Published on 1. September 1989
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-0-8108-2232-0 (ISBN)
Description
Contributors and their subjects include Donald E. Westlake on Peter Rabe, Loren D. Estleman on Donald Hamilton, Bill Crider on Harry Whittington, Marvin Lachman on Ed Lacy, Max Allan Collins on Jim Thompson, Jon L. Breen on Vin Packer, George Kelley on Marvin H. Albert, Ed Gorman on Charles Williams, Will Murray on Don Pendleton and the Executioner series, and Dick Lochte on Warren Murphy. Each essay concludes with a checklist of the book titles discussed.
Reviews / Votes
...a necessity for those who do not believe that the history of mystery fiction ended with Mickey Spillane, and that everything since his time can be lumped together as 'contemporary' and dismissed. * The Armchair Detective * Each writer covered here deserves renewed attention...A very interesting book. * Coast Book Review Service * ...an excellent book... * Paperback Parade * The materials for...a history of popular taste are what Jon L. Breen and Martin Harry Greenberg offer us... * Modern Fiction Studies * A smart beginning into the publishing history of the paperback mystery originals and their authors. * Murder Ad Lib *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-2232-0 (9780810822320)
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Persons
Jon L. Breen, Professor / Librarian at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, CA, is the author of four novels, most recently Touch of the Past (Walker, 1988), and a double Edgar winner in the biographical / critical category for What About Murder? and Novel Verdicts (Scarecrow, 1981, 1984). Martin Harry Greenberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, is the editor of hundreds of short story anthologies, most of them in the science fiction or mystery fields.