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		Anyone interested in Detective Fiction can also contact her by e-mail.
		Most of my links are for adults, but this is a special link where children and young adults can find Detective Fiction and Suspense books for their age group.
		J. Jance is a famous author of Thrillers.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/detective_fiction (477 words)

	Detective Novels: Whodunits and Thrillers
		is often told by a friend of the detective, who explicitly acknowledges that he is writing a book; the second story consists, in fact, in explaining how this very book came to be written.
		No thriller is presented in the form of memoirs: there is no point reached where the narrator comprehends all past events, we do not even know if he will reach the end of the story alive.
		This type of interest was inconceivable in the whodunit, for its chief characters (the detective and his friend the narrator) were, by definition, immunized: nothing could happen to them.
	www.victorianweb.org /genre/PIlit.html (728 words)

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		The detective, almost instinctively, pursues answers because of his “delight in the fantastic and unexplainable”; he is unable to resist the temptation of investigating the unknown (Herzogenrath 16).
		Raymond Chandler, master of the genre, describes the detective’s typical case as “not merely a problem to solved but one deeply veiled and doubly wrapped.” It must be complex and intriguing enough not only to warrant the efforts of the detective, but also to challenge him (and the astute reader).
		The detective’s job, then, includes “charting the significance of the crime’s clues or artifacts, items that cannot not be meaningful and that call out to be interpreted and fit into their proper pattern”(Sorapure 75).
	www.duke.edu /~pah5/Auster.doc (4078 words)

	Detective Story - MSN Encarta
		In addition to detective stories, other types of crime fiction include spy thrillers, which are concerned primarily with international intrigue and politics, and crime novels, which are stories that deal with the roots and nature of criminal acts.
		Dumas's works are not true detective stories, any more than are the Gothic novels of terror written at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries.
		Detective stories as a popular form of literature began to flourish after the establishment of regular, paid police forces and their accompanying detective departments.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559994/Detective_Story.html (1115 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Ruth Rendell
		One of the distinctive qualities of Rendell’s detective Wexford novels is her attempt to subvert a basically conservative genre.
		Detective fiction pre-supposes a figure who arrives to solve the crime, identify the criminal and hence end the chaos attendant upon crime"s disruption of social relationships.
		In this sense, detective narratives are a metaphysical form with the (usually heroic male) sleuth active as society’s saviour from disintegration.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3746 (697 words)

	Spanning & Thrillers
		Tijdens deze 'werkzaamheden' blijven alle pagina's gewoon oproepbaar, maar soms kan het misschien een beetje verwarrend worden, wanneer de ene pagina wel is aangepast en de andere pagina nog niet.
		Ook op het gebied van spannende boeken zijn er inmiddels een aantal en de verwachting is dat er binnenkort nog vele gaan bijkomen.
		Gekozen is voor dezelfde beoordelingsvorm als Vrij Nederland gebruikt in haar jaarlijkse Detective and Thrillergids.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/eric_herni (771 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Mystery & Thrillers \| New Releases
		Oxford don and part-time detective Gervase Fen is in the town of Tolnbridge where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to play sleuth.
		Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer —...
		In the life of Mma Ramotswe – a woman duly proud of her fine traditional build – there is rarely a dull moment, and in her newest round of adventures, challenges and intrigues, the same certainly holds true.
	www.randomhouse.ca /category/mystery (760 words)

	Fame & Fortune: Author Tami Hoag (Page 1 of 5)
		Thriller writer Tami Hoag leads a dual life that can turn the simplest telephone conversation into an Abbott and Costello routine.
		And for her, the subject of shoes can either mean the iron ones she buys for her beloved mare, Coco Chanel, or the closet full of Stuart Weitzmans that the author has brought home from Rodeo Drive since moving to Los Angeles in 2001.
		In the mid-1980s, Hoag left that stable to try her hand at thrillers and soon found green pastures -- hardcover, best-seller, money-green pastures, to be exact.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20060808b1.asp?prodtype=invest (497 words)

	MUSIC IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE FICTION By Philip Scowcroft: MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Detective fiction is better written and more readable these days, taking the genre as a whole and a plausible, carefully researched background is more of a necessity in the old days when the "whodunit" puzzle was everything.
		This is a romantic thriller rather than a detective story, the little detection necessary being carried out by the horn soloist, a young Englishman, but the festival atmosphere, musical detail and scenery are equally well drawn.
		A few detectives, notably Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey, are musicians themselves, though this does not make these two, at any rate, better detectives, for they do not, so far as we are told, have any opportunities to use their musical expertise in their cases.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /detective.htm (5709 words)

	Weird Menace Pulps and Supernatural Detection
		Chadwick's detective Wade Hammond is even specially deputized by the Police Commissioner in his tales, and works closely with and is respected by the police, so his relationship with the police parallels those of the Van Dine school.
		At least in this tale, the scientist detective uses logic, not technology, to detect; in this he is also closer to the Thinking Machine, than to such technology oriented detectives as Craig Kennedy or Dr. Thorndyke.
		Intermixed with this there is an investigation of the crime itself, shadowings by the detective of various suspects, and such subsequent mystery staples as an inquest and a trial.
	members.aol.com /mg4273/weirdmen.htm (5296 words)

	Rankin serves up one of the best Rebus thrillers - www.theage.com.au
		As Rebus's colleague and confidante, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, says at the beginning of the book, there's no mystery here about whodunit, to which Rebus predictably replies that the mystery is why Herdman did it.
		For the second plot opener, thoroughly nasty Martin Fairstone, who has been stalking and threatening Siobhan Clarke, burns to death in his apartment in what looks like an accident with a chip pan on the stove until forensics determines that he was tied to a chair and gagged at the time.
		Rankin is extremely good with that contemporary staple, the middle-aged police detective who has problems with smoking, drinking, diet, social life, marital/romantic life (or lack thereof), and authority - in no particular order - and with chronicling the social and cultural history of Edinburgh as it evolves before us.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/27/1064083206484.html?from=storyrhs (622 words)

	Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Treating the thriller as a subspecies of the detective story, Diemert characterizes Greene's protagonists as `investigators' whose function is to expose the falsehood of the `stories' current in English society, such as that English justice is impartial and is served by an incorruptible and infallible police force.
		The thriller most often mentioned is Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps of 1915; Greene's rivals for the thriller market in the 1930s are barely mentioned (Sapper, Dornford Yates, Eric Ambler not at all).
		By turning the thriller into a vehicle for sentiments congenial to late twentieth-century opinion (dislike of capitalism and `an imperialistic and class-bound social structure'), Greene redeemed the form, if not the times; these are thrillers we can read with a clear conscience.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/671/thrillers121.html (592 words)

	Borders - List - Mystery & Thriller (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this prequel to Slaughter's Blindsighted, a hostage situation at a police station resurrects scenes from medical examiner Sara Linton's past, and the key to survival might be found in the buried secrets of her ex-husband's life.
		Vincent D'Agosta, a former detective for the NYPD, is tough and rough around the edges.
		Cross is a brilliant detective and an exceptional action hero, the Wolf is spectacularly diabolical, and their rematch makes for a thrilling read.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/list.jsp?list=best2004mystery (959 words)

	Alibris: Detective and mystery stories
		Virginia's chief medical examiner is trapped in a nightmare of unsolved murders and a pernicious virus in this breathless thriller, where clues are elusive and the killer's threats are hurled through cyberspace.
		Washington, D.C. homicide detective Alex Cross is brought in to try to find a connection between the two murders--even as the killer strikes again.
		A dazzling debut, this forensic thriller was the toast of the Frankfurt Book Fair, leading "Variety" to hail Reichs as "the next Patricia Cornwell".
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Detective%20and%20mystery%20stories (1312 words)

	BookPage Review: The Poet
		With each of his four previous thrillers featuring the gritty LAPD detective, he has shown an uncanny ability to transcend the police procedural genre with intense character-driven plots, artful narrative, and sudden spurts of action that smack painfully true to real life.
		In The Poet, McEvoy's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has allegedly killed himself, but all evidence points to a madman who is cleverly murdering officers under the guise of suicide.
		Like all police departments, this one is slow to admit that there is an epidemic of supposed police suicides or that there may be foul play.
	www.bookpage.com /9601bp/mystery/thepoet.html (883 words)

	Thrillers & Suspense Movies at MSN Shopping
		More Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis) to order the investigation of best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), criminal psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is slowly drawn into Tramell's seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue in director Michael Caton-Jones belated sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1992 erotic thriller.
		Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the LAPD and is loyal to his officers and eager to turn a blind eye to violence or corruption within his department, as long as it's the "bad guys" who are getting hurt.
		Bud White (Russell Crowe) is a police detective whose violent and cynical nature is often at war with his basic sense of decency and justice.
	shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?bcatId=5338,page=10 (2522 words)

	Rent Mystery & Detective Titles @ Booksfree
		The ultimate way to rent Mystery & Detective books is at Booksfree.com!
		Booksfree has an incredible selection of Mystery & Detective books that will be delivered right to your front door.
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	categories.booksfree.com /mysterydetective (197 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Mystery & Crime: New Bestsellers, Classics, Thrillers: Detective Fiction, ...
		Introducing the Deadly Seven...seven titles from bestselling authors and new voices that will chill and terrorize you with their tales of murder, conspiracy, and suspense.
		In Marshall Karp's sequel to 2006's The Rabbit Factory, LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs learn firsthand how bloodthirsty Hollywood can be when some of the biggest players in showbiz start turning up dead!
		This smashing romantic and atmospheric thriller, set in occupied Paris, portrays the tragic fate of star-crossed lovers: one a reluctant member of the Gestapo and the other committed to the French Resistance.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /subjects/mystery/mystery_cds2.asp?z=y&PID=13&z=y&cds2Pid=1268&linkid=745635 (471 words)

	Bantam Dell Publishing Group
		From The Edge of Justice to Crossing the Line, Clinton McKinzie has captivated readers with thrillers that combine heart-pounding action with...
		Clinton McKinzie writes powerhouse thrillers that are like nothing you’ve ever read— novels that crackle with raw emotion and brilliantly explore...
		Combining high-altitude climbing action with sizzling courtroom drama and raw tension, The Edge of Justice is a thriller like no other...
	www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=20047&imprint=Bantam&imprint=Bantam%20Classics&imprint=Crimeline&imprint=Delacorte%20Press&imprint=Dell&imprint=Delta&imprint=Dial%20Books&imprint=The%20Dial%20Press&imprint=Dial%20Press%20Trade%20Paperback&imprint=DTP&imprint=Island%20Books&imprint=Domain&imprint=Fanfare&imprint=Spectra&max_returns=&best=&page=0&sortfield=pub%5fdate (310 words)

	Insomnia - smh.com.au
		Insomnia is a remake of a 1997 Norwegian thriller, in which Stellan Skarsgard was a sleep-deprived Swedish detective in the endless daylight of a northern summer.
		Williams plays a writer of detective thrillers, Walter Finch, who becomes a suspect in the murder of a 17-year-old girl that Detective Will Dormer (Pacino) flies in to investigate.
		Detective Ellie Burr (Hilary Swank), a huge admirer of the renowned Detective Dormer, is there to meet them.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/04/1031115883688.html (683 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The private-eye (or detective) role that came about later reflected a wider range of things that women could assume and do.
		That series of procedurals had a strong woman character in a nontraditional role--that character was a professional, and she was solving murders because the bodies in these cases spoke to her--and that opened up a field that is very full and rich today.
		What is exciting to me about this category of fiction--one in which I've lived as a reader for a long time--is that the work we do that so informs these books on a professional level, and the kind of detection that women are involved in doing, are taken to another level altogether as well.
	www.fathom.com /feature/35009/index.html (864 words)

	Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Encyclopedia Brown)
		Introduce your favorite bookworm to boy detective Encyclopedia Brown, fifth-grade mastermind behind Idaville's police force, "a complete library walking around in sneakers." Each book is set up so that readers can try to solve the case along with the boy genius, and the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back.
		Theses are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain.
		This story is about a boy who starts a detective business and his name is Leroy Brown, but all his friends call him Encyclopedia.
	www.i-love-cats.com /cat-supplies/Cat-3361-0553157248-Encyclopedia_Brown_Boy_Detective_Encyclopedia_Brown.html (645 words)

	THRILLER PRESS, THE BEST NEW MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS
		The protagonist of the series is a Lake Tahoe detective named Owen McKenna, an ex-cop from San Francisco who, after a tragic shooting, gave up his gun and his city and moved to the mountains to start over.
		THE HUNTRESS is a frightening thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to save her children from a brilliant psychopath.
		Thriller Press also has a new author in the works, a woman whose thriller will be a surprise.
	www.thrillerpress.com /featured.html (2065 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Split Images
		He's a hard-working homicide detective on a vacation from all the various ways people can kill each other in Detroit City.
		Problem is, the detective can't escape his Detroit roots even while he's in Florida.
		Walter Kouza is an experienced,quick acting detective from Detroit who has moved to Florida.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0060089547 (424 words)

	Mystery and Detective Fiction Books and Articles - Research Mystery and Detective Fiction at Questia Online Library
		...The Reader and the Detective Story is unique in the criticism of detective fiction, in the sense that it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed...
		...Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula.
		detective fiction according...didactic detective novels, we...look at four mystery writers who...relatively few mystery readers seek...has taught detective fiction as well...
	www.questia.com /library/literature/fiction/mystery-and-detective-fiction.jsp (725 words)

	Writers Store: Truby's Detectives, Crime Stories, and Thrillers Audio Course - John Truby
		Detective stories, crime stories and thrillers make up a huge percentage of the entertainment industry's annual output, in film, television and novels.
		The Thriller is one of Hollywood's most popular forms because it combines the criminality and surprise of the detective form with the danger and pressure of horror.
		This 6-hour DETECTIVES, CRIME STORIES, AND THRILLERS COURSE lays out a precise blueprint for how to create the investigators, murderers and suspects, the intricacies of the crimes, the plot twists, the special story beats and the underlying themes of these popular genres.
	www.writersstore.com /product.php?products_id=821 (460 words)

	The American Mystery Novel
		This is an extensive history of the writers and themes of hard-boiled detective novels.
		Homer is a former police detective who is now a professor of American literature as is his wife.
		Borthwick (1923 -) Borthwick's series detective is Sara Deane, a professor of English, and her husband Dr. Alex McKenzie.
	www.sldirectory.com /libsf/booksf/mystery/america.html (1438 words)

	University Press of Kentucky
		With the emergence of hard-boiled detective fiction in the 1920s, the mystery story shed its refined manners and went native.
		school of detective story at which Chandler excelled is not a separate genre of fiction, as it is carelessly referred to by some literary critics.
		Furthermore, the low-budget, high-quality thrillers that surfaced in the 1940s had a profound influence on the crime film throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
	www.kentuckypress.com /0813121744excerpt.cfm (3307 words)

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