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Title British mystery and thriller writers since 1960 / edited by Gina Macdonald
Published Detroit : Gale Group, 2003
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 424 pages)
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 276
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 276
Contents Marian Babson (1929- ) -- Robert Barnard (1936- ) -- Gavin Black (Oswald Morris Wynd) (1913-1998) -- Lionel Black (Dudley Barker) (1910-1980) -- Christianna Brand (1907-1988) -- Simon Brett (1945- ) -- W.J. Burley (1914- ) -- Heron Carvic (1917?-1980) -- James Hadley Chase (Rene Raymond) (1906-1985) -- Douglas Clark (1919-1993) -- Brian Cleeve (1921- ) -- Liza Cody (1944- ) -- Desmond Cory (Shaun Lloyd McCarthy) (1928- ) -- Lionel Davidson (1922- ) -- Peter Dickinson (1927- ) -- Joan Fleming (1908-1980) -- Antonia Fraser (1932- ) -- Celia Fremlin (1914- ) -- Jonathan Gash (John Grant) (1933- ) -- William Haggard (Richard Clayton) (1907-1993) -- Adam Hall (Trevor Dudley-Smith) (1920-1995) -- Reginald Hill (1936- ) -- Michael Innes (J.I.M. Stewart) (1906-1994) -- P.D. James (1920- ) -- Alistair MacLean (1922-1987) -- Jemes McClure (1939- ) -- James Melville (Roy Peter Martin) (1931- ) -- Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) -- Anne Perry (1938- ) -- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) (1913-1995) -- Raymond W. Postgate (1896-1971) -- Anthony Price (1928- ) -- Ruth Rendell (Barbara Vine) (1930- ) -- Colin Watson (1920-1983)
Summary Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Detective and mystery stories, English -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Dictionaries.
English fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
English fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Suspense fiction -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Suspense fiction -- Dictionaries
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Macdonald, Gina.
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 2003002268
ISBN 0787660205
9780787660208