Title American mystery and detective writers / edited by George Parker Anderson

Published Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 475 p. :) ill Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 306 Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 306 Contents Michael Avallone (1925-1999) / Martin Kich -- Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1993) / Marvin Lachman -- Gil Brewer (1922-1983) / Timothy A. Dayton -- Paul Cain (1902-1966) / Peter Gunn -- Robert Campbell (1927- ) / Martin Kich -- John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) / Douglas G. Greene -- Mary Higgins Clark (1929- ) / Wendi Arrant-Kaspar -- Michael Connelly (1956- ) / George Parker Anderson -- Patricia Cornwell (1956- ) / Chuck Etheridge -- Amanda Cross (1926- ) / Chuck Etheridge -- Lester Dent (1904-1959) / Katherine M. Restaino -- Dominick Dunne (1925- ) / Katherine M. Restaino -- Stanley Ellin (1916-1986) / Katherine Restaino -- Elizabeth George (1949- ) / Karl L. Stenger -- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) / Karl Stenger -- Tony Hillerman (1925- ) / Marvin Lachman -- Edward D. Hoch (1930- ) / Marvin Lachman -- Evan Hunter [Ed McBain] (1926- ) / Martin Kich -- Emma Lathen (1927-1997) / Marcia Dinneen -- Frances and Richard Lockridge (1896-1963; 1898-1982) / Marvin Lachman -- Dennis Lynds (Michael Collins) (1924- ) / Ward Lewis -- Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978) / Peter Kenney -- John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) / Matt Theado -- Helen McCloy (1904-1992) / Anita G. Gorman -- Sharyn McCrumb (1948- ) / Marcia Dinneen -- Ralph McInerny (1926- ) / Anita G. Gorman -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) / Jack Cobbs -- Michael Nava (1954- ) / Karl Stenger -- Sara Paretsky (1947- ) / Peter Dempsey -- Robert B. Parker (1932- ) / Donna Waller Harper -- George Pelecanos / Peter Gunn -- Mary Roberts Rinehart / Jan Cohn -- Rex Stout (1886-1975) / Bobbie Robinson -- S.S. Van Dine [Willard Huntington Wright] 1889-1939 / (Marvin Lachman) -- Judith Van Gieson (1941- ) / Carol Kay Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries. Detective and mystery stories, American -- Dictionaries Detective and mystery stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries Form Electronic book Author Anderson, George Parker, 1957- LC no. 2004018770 ISBN 0787668435 9780787668433

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