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After a second student nurse at Nightingale House dies under mysterious circumstances, Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh knows there is a murderer on the loose.

There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton,...

Sections include such listings as:a "master" list; mystery types; series characters; settings; title chronology; alphabetical list of titles; pseudonyms, and mystery book awards.

A host of crime buffs including Interpol consultants, forensic anthropologists, psychiatrists, and novelists contribute articles on the many faces, factors, and techniques of crime in fact and fiction.

Includes "stories by Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Robert van Gulik, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Edmund Crispin, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Ray Bradbury, P.D. James, Donald Westlake, Ed McBain."