100 Must-read Crime Novels
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2009
208 pages
978-1-4081-0370-8 (ISBN)
Description
Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the some of the finest crime novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert on the world of crime. The book also allows you to browse by theme, includes 'a reader's fast-guide to the world of crime fiction' as well listing the top 10 crime characters and their creators, award winners and book club recommendations.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
N/A
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-0370-8 (9781408103708)
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Nick Rennison | Richard Shephard
100 Must-read Crime Novels
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Richard Shephard is an experienced writer who has worked for many years creating copy for the Waterstones website. Nick Rennison is a bookseller, editor and freelance writer. He reviews new titles for Waterstones Books Quarterly and is author of the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide.
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Content
- About this book
- Introduction
- A-Z of entries
- Margery Allingham
- Eric Ambler
- John Franklin Bardin
- E.C. Bentley
- Nicholas Blake
- Lawrence Block
- Fredric Brown
- James Lee Burke
- Jame M. Cain
- Paul Cain
- John Dickson Carr
- Vera Caspary
- Raymond Chandler
- James Hadley Chase
- G.K. Chesterton
- Agatha Christie
- Harlan Coben
- Wilkie Collins
- Michael Connelly
- K.C. Constantine
- Patricia Cornwell
- Robert Crais
- Edmund Crispin
- James Crumley
- Colin Dexter
- Michael Dibdin
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- James Ellroy
- Loren D. Estleman
- Robert Ferrigno
- G.M. Ford
- Dick Francis
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Michael Gilbert
- David Goodis
- Joe Gores
- Sue Grafton
- James W. Hall
- Dashiell Hammett
- Joseph Hansen
- Cyril Hare
- Thomas Harris
- Carl Hiaasen
- George V. Higgins
- Patricia Highsmith
- Reginald Hill
- Tony Hillerman
- Chester Himes
- Craig Holden
- Fergus Hume
- Francis Iles
- Michael Innes
- P.D. James
- Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Dennis Lehane
- Donna Leon
- Elmore Leonard
- Gaston Leroux
- Ed McBain
- Cameron McCabe
- John D. MacDonald
- Ross MacDonald
- Michael Malone
- Henning Mankell
- Ngaio Marsh
- Margaret Millar
- Gladys Mitchell
- Mauel Vázquez Montalbán
- Walter Mosley
- Sara Paretsky
- Robert B. Parker
- George Pelecanos
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ian Rankin
- Derek Raymond
- Ruth Rendell
- Peter Robinson
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Steven Saylor
- Georges Simenon
- Mickey Spillane
- Richard Stark
- Rex Stout
- Julian Symons
- Josephine Tey
- Ross Thomas
- Jim Thompson
- Barbara Vine
- Minette Walters
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Charles Willeford
- Charles Williams
- Daniel Woodrell
- Cornell Woolrich
- Crime Fiction Awards
- Index
