Barzun, Jacques and Wendell H. Taylor.
A Catalogue of Crime
. New York: Harper & Row, 1971: rev. 1989.
Cawelti, John G.
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance
. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Chandler, Raymond.
The Simple Art of Murder
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Dove, George N.
The Ploice Procedural
, Bowling Green Ohio: Popular Press, 1982.
Eco, Umberto, Postscript to “The Name of the Rose”, trans. William Weaver, New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Haycraft, Howard. ed.
The Art of the Mystery Story
. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946.
James, P.D. “No Gore, Please—They’re British,” (interview) The New York Times Book Review, 9 October 1988.
Landrum, Larry, Pat Browne and Ray B. Browne, ed.
Demensions of Detective Fiction
,. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1976.
Maugham, W. Somerset. “The Declind and Fall of the Dective Story,”
The Vagrant Mood
. Port Washington New York: Kennikat Press, 1969.
Nevins, Francism., Jr.
The Mystery Writer’s Art
. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1970.
Ousby, Ian.
Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective In English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle
, Chambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Reilly, John M., ed.
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers
, New York: St. Martin’s, 1980; rev. 1985.
Symons, Julian.
Bloody Murder: A History. From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
. New York: Viking, 1985.
Wilson, Edmond.
A Literary Chronicle of the 1940’s
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1950.
Student Reading List
Burns, Rex.
Angle of Attack.
Burns, Rex.
Speak For The Dead.
Hillerman, Tony.
A Thief of Time.
Hillerman, Tony.
Skinwalkers.
Mosley, Walter.
A Red Death.
Mosley, Walter.
Devil In A Blue Dress.