Talking About Detective Fiction

Bibliography and Suggested Reading

Barnard, Robert. A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie. Collins, London, 1980.

Booth, Martin. The Doctor, the Detective and Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997.

Craig, Patricia, and Mary Cadogan. The Lady In vestigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction. Victor Gollancz, London, 1981.

Keating, H. R. F., ed. Crime Writers: Reflection on Crime Fiction. BBC, London, 1978.

Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, London, 1991; The Hogarth Press, London, 1992.

Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, London, 1984.

Most, Glenn W., and William W. Stowe, eds. The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1983.

Penzler, Otto, ed. The Great Detectives. Little, Brown, Boston and Toronto, 1978.

Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993.

Reynolds, Barbara, ed. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1995.

Stewart, R. F. And Always a Detective: Chapters on the History of Detective Fiction. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1980.

Summerscale, Kate. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House. Bloomsbury, London, 2008.

Symons, Julian. Bloody Murder. Faber & Faber, London, 1972; Viking, New York, 1985; Mysterious Press, New York, 1992.

Thompson, Laura. Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. Headline Review, London, 2007.

Thorogood, Julia. Margery Allingham: A Biography. William Heinemann, London, 1991. Now reissued as Julia Jones, The Adventures of Margery Allingham. Golden Duck Publishing, Chelmsford, 2009.

Watson, Colin. Snobbery with Violence. Eyre & Spottis-woode, London, 1971; Eyre Methuen, London, 1979, 1987.

Winks, Robin. Detective Fiction. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1980.