Brown, Hazel and Brian Cambourne. Read and Retell. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1987.
This book describes in detail the read-and-retell procedure, how to implement it in your classroom and how to use written retellings as part of an assessment tool.
Evans, Marilyn. Guided Report Writing. Monterey, Calif.: Evan-Moor Corp., 1987.
This book presents a guided step-by-step process for writing a group report.
Goodman, Debra. The Reading Detective Club -- Solving the Mysteries of Reading. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1999.
This book offers the teacher a comprehensive overview of the reading process and describes how to sponsor a Reading Detective Club. It offers to the students (grades 3-8) a series of mystery cases to solve that are actually reading strategy lessons.
Gorman, Ed, Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff and Jon L. Breen (eds.). The Fine Art of Murder. New York: Galahad Books, 1993.
This book offers an interesting and informative overview of the mystery field from the traditional mystery to the
serial killer novel including movies, television and fiction.
Hoyt, Linda. Revisit, Reflect, Retell -- Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1999.
An invaluable resource for teachers, this book includes a collection of over 130 strategies and 90 reproducibles for use as reading extension activities that encourage high-quality responses to literature.
Jerome-Cohen, Deborah, ed. Investigating Mysteries -- Teacher's Sourcebook. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1992.
This sourcebook lays out a 3-4 week reading-writing program that focuses on the genre of detective-fiction. Three children's mysteries have been chosen and can be used in conjunction with a wealth of suggested activities that help students analyze what they read, react to what they learn and use their knowledge to create their own mystery stories.
Keating, H. R. F. (ed.). WhoDunit? A Guide to Crime, Suspense & Spy Fiction. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982.
A wonderful resource that presents a history of the whole genre and includes numerous chapters that analyze the various categories of crime fiction. It also provides a description of the works of over 500 novelists and profiles of the 90 most well-known characters of this genre.
------. Writing Crime Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Written by a well-known British crime novelist, this book offers aspiring mystery writers helpful hints on the successful writing of a crime novel discussing such aspects as planning the structure of the crime story, building plot and characters, creating tension and suspense, maintaining the story's momentum and resolving the mystery.
La Cour, Tage and Harald Mogensen, The Murder Book: An Illustrated History of the Detective Story. New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.
The history of crime fiction is told through vivid illustrations and gathered from all kinds of sources and texts. A
valuable archive of the world's great detectives.
Morris, Patricia S. and Margaret A. Berri. Mystery and Suspense. West Nyack. New York: The Center for Applied Research Education, 1993.
Geared for grades 6-12, this book describes over 250 titles in annotated booklists and represents a range of reading levels. The 52 generic activity sheets aid students in vocabulary development and provide practice in the analysis of setting, plot, conflict, character, irony, theme and symbolism.
Most, Glenn W. and William W. Stowe, eds. The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983.
An invaluable collection of critical essays on detective-fiction.
Opitz, Michael F. and Timothy V. Rasinski. Good-bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1999.
This book demonstrates how to use oral reading to help students develop comprehension. It offers 25 strategies for helping children learn to read aloud.
Penzler, Otto, Chris Steinbrunner and Marvin Lachman (eds.). Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction. Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1977.
An invaluable reference book, this Who's Who of the mystery world describes in illustrations and in words fictional detectives great and small, their cases, methods of deduction, habits and so much more
Poe, Edgar Allen. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1995.
A collection of Poe's best stories that best characterize his work. The Auguste Dupin stories, the first modern detective stories in English, are included in this collection.
Queen, Ellery. Queen's Quorum. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969.
A good reference book that offers a history of the detective-crime short story through a description and rating system (assessing the work's historical significance, quality of literary style and rarity of first edition) of 106 books that Queen has deemed most important to the genre.
Robb, Laura. Reading Strategies That Work. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1995.
This book describes in detail numerous reading strategies to offer students that foster independence in reading and help nurture a love of books.
Symons, Julian. Bloody Murder -- From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1985.
This resource book offers the reader a history of crime fiction describing important writers and their works through the
ages. This revised edition includes a critique of many important crime fiction writers who have emerged since 1972.
Symons, Julian. Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigations. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1981.
In this book great detectives like Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Philip Marlowe and Ellery Queen have been brought together in words (in the form of entertaining incidents in their lives as well as case histories) and pictures (as drawn by Tom Adams). Through these investigations we learn many fascinating details about these well-known sleuths.
Winks, Robin W. Modus Operandi -- An Excursion into Detective Fiction. Boston: David R. Godine, Publishers 1963.
This book invites the reader on an excursion into the genre providing many interesting insights into the art of the detective story.
Winks, Robin W., ed. The Historian As Detective. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
In this interesting collection of historical detection classics (i. e. the murder of JFK) writers describe how historians work much like detectives do, using similar methods and confronting similar dangers of dealing with evidence to unravel old mysteries.
Woeller, Waltraud and Bruce Cassidy. The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present. New York: The Ungar Publishing Company, 1988.
A history of the detective genre offering stories written by authors from different countries and time periods. The reader gets a look at how various cultures have dealt with the idea of crime in their literature.