A critical history of mystery fiction
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A critical history of mystery fiction
Julian Symons surveys the development of mystery writing, tracing the genre from the detective story to the crime novel. This revised third edition presents a history shaped by his assessments of writers and books across the field, with the publisher describing its overall approach as appreciative of the genre’s range. It is literary criticism rather than a work of crime fiction, offering a broad view of how mystery writing has been discussed and categorized.
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