Handbooks (Subject search: Detective and mystery stories--Handbooks)

[Illustration from: Hound
of the Baskervilles.
Berkeley Medallion, 1963.]

Burack, A. S., ed. Writing suspense and mystery fiction (Boston, MA: The Writer, 1977) JFD 77-11697 A collection of essays on the techniques of writing mystery stories. Includes such authors as Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers and Bill Pronzini.

Herman, Linda. Corpus delecti of mystery fiction: a guide to the body of the case (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1974) JFD 93-10434 Includes a chapter on definitions and terms for bibliomysteries, police procedurals and other sub-genres of mystery fiction.

Roth, Martin. Writer's complete crime reference book (Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1990) JFE 90-4878 Useful facts for the student of crime fiction. How accurate is your chosen author? Chapters on police crime lab procedures, arson investigation, weaponry, underworld slang and more.