Mystery & Detective Fiction
- Legends:
Available at E.J. Pratt Library
Available at Emmanuel Library
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See also: Resources in English Literature.
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General Resources
The Dictionary of Crime Terms
HV6017 .S54 2003
Reference
Trouble Is their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film and Television
P96 .D4 C66 1990
Reference & Robarts Stacks
Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Contains articles about individual authors of mystery and detective fiction and a glossary. In addition there are overview essays and several appendixes
PN3448 .D4 C75 2008
Reference
Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection Eds Chris Steinbrunner & Otto Penzler
P96 .D4 E5 1984
Robarts Stacks & Trinity Reference
Whodunit: An Informal History of Detective Fiction
PN3448 .D4 B4713 1980
Robarts Stacks
Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Detective and Mystery Fiction, including famous and little-known sleuths, their helpers, rogues both heroic and sinister, and some of their most memorable adventures, as recounted in novels, short stories, and films
PN3448 .D4 D3
Robarts Stacks
Sleuths, Inc: Studies of Problem Solvers, Doyle, Simenon, Hammett, Ambler, Chandler
PN3448 .D4 E2
Stacks
Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
PN3448 .D4 M87 1999
Robarts Reference
The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory
PN3448 .D4 P54 1983
Foul & Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction
PN3448 .D4 R66 1995
Robarts Stacks
Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
PN3448 .D4 S87 1992
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
PR85 .R42 1996
Reference
Murder Done to Death: Parody and Pastiche in Detective Fiction
PR830 .D4 M45 1996
Robarts Stacks
Dictionary of British Literary Characters
PR 830 .C47 D5 1993
Reference
The Woman Detective Gender & Genre
PR830 .D4 K58 1995
Stacks
Mystery & Suspense Writers: the Literature of Crime Detection and Espionage
PR830 .D43 M97 1998
Reference
St James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers
PR888 .D4 S24 1996
Reference
Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights-A Survey of American Detective Fiction
PS374 .D4 B3 1985
St. Mikes & Robarts Stacks
Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction
PS374 .D4 B56 1990
Stacks
History of Mystery
PS374.D4 C59 2001
Stacks Oversize
Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross McDonald: A Literary Reference
PS374 .D4 H375 2002
Reference
Hard-Boiled Explicator: A Guide to the Study of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald
Z1231 .D47 S57 1985
Robarts Stacks
Crime Fiction IV, a Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-2000
Z2014 .F4 H8
Reference
Murder by category: A Subject Guide to Mystery Fiction
Z2014 .F4 M24 1991
Robarts Stacks
Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
Z5917 .D5 B59 2004
Reference
Make Mine a Mystery: a Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
Z5917 .D5 N54 2003
Reference
Criticism & Reviews Online
MLA International Bibliography
This database indexes sources on literature, linguistics and drama from 1963 to present.
This database indexes sources on literature, linguistics and drama from 1963 to present.
ABELL
Humanities Abstracts, Reader's Guide Abstracts and Essay & General Literature Index
Provide citations to literary criticism articles and book chapters.
Literature Resource Center
provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
PCI
Includes citations and selected full-text from critical articles as well as book and performance review in humanities and social sciences journals from 1770 to 1993. This is the only electronic resource available that indexes back to the 1770s.
Includes citations and selected full-text from critical articles as well as book and performance review in humanities and social sciences journals from 1770 to 1993. This is the only electronic resource available that indexes back to the 1770s.
Book Review Digest Plus
Provides citations and excerpts from reviews in approximately 90 popular journals from 1983 to present in the electronic version. Available online at the Pratt Library only. The paper version has excerpts from complete reviews for fiction and nonfiction many disciplines starting from 1905 (Z1219 .B64 Pratt Storage and Z1219 .B6 Trinity Stacks).
Provides citations and excerpts from reviews in approximately 90 popular journals from 1983 to present in the electronic version. Available online at the Pratt Library only. The paper version has excerpts from complete reviews for fiction and nonfiction many disciplines starting from 1905 (Z1219 .B64 Pratt Storage and Z1219 .B6 Trinity Stacks).
Arts & Humanities Citation Index and
Social Science Citation Index
are part of the Web of Knowledge, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. The online versions go back to 1982.
Social Science Citation Index
are part of the Web of Knowledge, an online database indexing resources in all areas. It includes citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. The online versions go back to 1982.
Electronic Reference
Literature Resource Centre
Contains Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on authors; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
Contains Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on authors; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars.
Twayne's Author Series
Contains criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature. Lengthy treatment of authors.
Contains criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature. Lengthy treatment of authors.
Electronic Books
Available in the UTL Catalogue
- 84 titles by Edgar Allan Poe
- Classic Mystery Writers / Bloom, Harold
- 25 titles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Classic Crime and Suspense Writers / Bloom, Harold
- The Moonstone / Collins, Wilkie
- Detective Fiction: Notes / David, Allen L.
- The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories, Old Time English / Hawthorne, Julian
Useful Websites
Mystery Fiction Bookshelf: Project GutenberyMystery e-books in the public domain. Includes the works of Poe, Collins, Dickens and others.
A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
"(A)n educational site containing reading lists and essays on great mysteries mainly of the pre 1960 era."
compiled by: Gabbi Zaldin | updated: October 2011