Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography

I should be grateful; but books like this do rather annoy, if not actually depress me. Don’t get me wrong: this is an excellent, comprehensive bibliography. But that is my problem. Almost as long as I can remember I have enjoyed reading detective and murder mysteries (it all began with my mother’s omnivorous enjoyment of the genre in the days before television) and thought to have read about all there was worth reading. Various public libraries have had their stocks of detective fiction exhausted by me over the years. Then I pick up this specialised volume, and while checking to...