Contains the revised contents of Crime Fiction III, continued through 2000. Includes indexes by author, title, series, character, and setting of over 106,000 de

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An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short s

The first systematic account of crime fiction as a global genre, offering unprecedented coverage of distinct traditions across the world.

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