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Having read mysteries for many years – and owning about 6,000 private eye novels, librarian Gary Niebuhr has written this reader’s guide primarily to help librarians in the reader’s advisory role in their jobs. Niebuhr has reviewed mysteries for years in a variety of sources. His credits include A Reader’s Guide to the Private Eye Novel (G.K. Hall, 1993), and one volume of the Reader’s Guides to Mystery Novels, published by G.K. Hall in the mid‐ to late‐1990s.

The first part of the book provides a history of mystery fiction, an analysis of the elements of mystery fiction that...

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