Benjamin A. Gorman
Barzun Jacques and Graff, Henry F.
The Modern Researcher
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1957.
Parts one and two offer valuable information concerning historical method and the historian’s work.
Collingwood, R. G.
The Idea of History
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Part five deals with the nature of history, historical method, historical evidence and progress. The mystery, “Who killed John Doe?” pages 266-282, illustrates historical questioning and the observation of evidence.
Davidson, James West and Lytte, Mark Hamilton.
After the Fact
:
The Art of Historical Detection
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Explores historical mysteries.
King, Allen Y., Dennis, Ida and Potter, Florence.
The United States and the Other Americas
. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1980
The Murder Mystery
activity from Children’s Creative Response To Conflict Program. Box 271, Nyack, New York. 10960.
Winks, Robin W. ed.
The Historian as Detective
:
Essays
on
Evidence
. New York: Harper and Row, Publisher, 1968.
Essays by Allen Nevins, “The Case of the Cheating Documents” and Carl L. Becker, “Everyman His Own Historian” are found in this collection of critical articles and reviews which deal with historical detection. An enjoyable introduction which keys on how historical methodology is similar to the investigations found in detective fiction should be read.
Winks, Robin W.
Modus Operandi
:
An Excursion into Detective Fiction
. Boston: David R. Godine, Publishers, 1982. Critical insight into the
genre
of detective fiction: “In the end, like history, such fiction appears to and occasionally does, decode the environment . . . .”