Description
ISBN: 0892964960
Title: Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Author: Symons, Julian
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mysterious Press, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Edition: First American Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: F
Comments: Small smudge on front cover. Very tight copy.
Synopsis: In celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons’ 80th year, here is the third and final revised edition of his classic history of mystery fiction. The views expressed here are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of “strip cartoon stories,” but the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within the genre.
