Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction (new edition)

First published in 1990 as the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Murder, Crime Fiction and Thrillers this new edition features 110 new authors and covers every major crime fiction genre “from cosy crime to the darkest American Noir”. The main section of the book is an alphabetic listing of 220 of the best crime fiction writers, nearly all British or American. Each entry contains the author’s year of birth, a brief evaluation of her or his work, a note of the most important titles and, straying into Jeanne and Roy Huse’s territory in Who Else Writes Like … ?, a...