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Herbert, Rosemary

Overview
Works: 16 works in 45 publications in 1 language and 4,942 library holdings
Genres: Mystery fiction 
Roles: Editor, Other
Classifications: pn3448.d4, 813.087208
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Most widely held works by Rosemary Herbert
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2 editions published in in English and held by 1,226 libraries worldwide
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
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5 editions published between and 1996 in English and held by 448 libraries worldwide
What kind of mind can create the intricate and intriguing world of the mystery novel - the human puzzle, the tangle of motivation, deception, and death? What drives a superior author to turn to crime and mystery rather than to mainstream literary fiction? During her thirteen years of interviewing authors, writer and photographer Rosemary Herbert has posed these questions to distinguished crime writers. Now in The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews with Mystery Writers, Herbert provides answers in a volume that will introduce anyone from the literary scholar to the mystery fan to the talented, calculating, and witty minds that commit murder on the printed page, much to the entertainment and fascination of millions of readers. In a unique collection of interviews, Herbert provides three types of portraits of each of thirteen authors: a photographic likeness; an essay describing each author's personality, place in the crime writing genre, and the environment of the interview; and a conversational visit that enables the reader to feel personally acquainted with each author. These revealing interviews with such luminaries as P. D. James, Tony Hillerman, John Mortimer, Sue Grafton, Julian Symons, and Patricia D. Cornwell will be a source of valuable information and considerable enjoyment to the researcher and the avid mystery reader alike.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 354 libraries worldwide
Was Ellen abducted-- or did she deliberately strew signs of a struggle across her kitchen and flee for reasons of her own? When a devoted mother disappears, Liz vows to nail some front-page news by finding her. The quest takes her into Boston's lively Irish pub scene and as far as Fiji.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide
Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder?. Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of cl.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
 
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The Oxford book of American detective stories
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English (45)
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