Works Cited
Primary Sources
Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery.
Dodd, Mead, and Company, Inc. 1926.
Example of English Golden Age Detective Fiction which provides patterns
for character development.
Goldstein, F. C. & Levin, H.S. (1987). Disorders of reasoning and problem-
solving ability. In M. Meier, A. Benton, & l. Diller (Eds).
Neuropsychological rehabilitation. London: Taylor & Francis Group.
Hillerman, Tony and Penzler, Otto (EDS). The Best American Mystery Stories
of the Century. Houghton Mifflin Co. New York, NY. 2000.
Examples of stories in this subgenre which adhere to the tenets and conventions
to be provided to the students.
Knight, Stephen. Form & Ideology in Crime Fiction. 1980.
Provides tenets and conventions of detective fiction.
Reddy, Maureen. Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel. The
Continuum Publishing Company. New York, NY. 1988.
Examples of writings in the various subgenres by women.
Pepper, Andrew. The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity,
Gender, Class. Edinburgh University Press Ltd. Edinburgh, UK. 2000.
Provides tenets of crime fiction and how they differ according to the race,
ethnicity, gender, or class of the writer.
Soitos, Stephen. The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction.
University of Massachusetts Press. 1996.
Provides tenets and conventions of detective fiction written by Black authors.
Winks, Robin W. Ed. Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays. The
Countryman Press. Woodstock, VT. 1988.
Provides critical essays on detective fiction,
Winks, Robin W. Historian as Detective. Harpercollins College Div. 1978.
Shows how historians use the tenets and conventions associated with detective
fiction in their research and writings.
Winks, Robin W. Modus Operandi: An Excursion into Detective Fiction. David R.
Godine, Publisher, Inc. 1982.
Winks, Robin W. & Corrigan, Maureen (EDS). Mystery & Suspense Writers
Volume I.: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage. Charles
Scribner & Sons. New York, NY. 1998.
Provides examples of mystery and suspense novels, along with critical
analyses of the same.
Winks, Robin W. The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence: The Adventurous
Search for Clues to Scholarly Hoaxes, Forgeries, and Lost Misleading Documents,
and the Evaluation of Evidence in Man's Study of His Own Past. Harper & Row.
1968.
Shows how historians use the tenets and conventions associated with detective
fiction in their research and writings.
Electronic Sources
http://www. crimeculture. com/Contents/ Hard-Boiled.html
http:// encarta.msn.com/text_761559304___O/Short_Story.html
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction
http:// en.wikip.edia.org/wiki/Problem_solving
http:// en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ Suspense
http: //en. wikipedia .org/wiki/Thriller _%28genre%29
Student References
Allingham, Margery. The Tiger in the Smoke. 1952.
Ashley, Mike. The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits: Murder Mysteries
from the Age of Bright Young Things, Carroll & Graf. 2004.
Bayard, Pierre. Who Killed Roger Ackroyd: The Mystery Behind the Agatha
Christie Mystery. The New Press. Ney York, NY. 2000.
Burns, Rex. The Alvarez Journal. Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. New York, NY.
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Burns, Rex. The Avenging Angel. Penguin Books Ltd. New York, NY. 1984.
Burns, Rex. The Farmsworth Score. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 1977.
Student References (Continued)
Burns, Rex. The Killing Zone. The Penguin Group. New York, NY. 1989.
Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery.
Dodd, Mead, and Company, Inc. 1926.
Dixon, Franklin W. The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery. Grossett &
Dunlap. New York, NY. 1992.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories.
Volumes I and II. Bantam Dell. New York, NY. 2003.
Farrell, Tish. Write Your Own Mystery Story. Compass Book Store.
Minneapolis, MN. 2006.
Ferrara, Alex and Levy, Jose. Collateral Man. Graafica Andina.2003.
Hammett, Dashiell. Red Harvest. Alfred J. Knopf, Inc. New York. 1929.
George, Elizabeth. A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women.
Harper Perennial. New York, NY. 2004.
Hillerman, Tony. The Leaphorn & Chee Novels: Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time,
Coyote Waits. 2005.
Hillerman, Tony and Penzler, Otto (EDS). The Best American Mystery Stories
of the Century. Houghton Mifflin Co. New York, NY. 2000.
Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Secret in the Old Attic.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York, NY. 1944.
Mankell, Henning. The White Lioness. Vintage Books. New York, NY. 1998.
Mansfield-Kelley, Deane and Marchino, Lois A. Death by Pen:: The Longman
Anthology of Detective Fiction From Poe to Paretzsky. Pearson Education, Inc. 2007.
Mosley, Walter. Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery. Washington
Square Press Publication. 2002.
Neely, Barbara. Blanche Among the Talented Tenth. Penguin Books. New
York, NY. 1994.
Neely, Barbara. Blanche Cleans Up. Penguin Books. New York, NY. 1999.
Neely, Barbara. Blanche on the Lam. Penguin Books. New York, NY. 1992.
Neely, Barbara. Blanche Passes Go. Penguin Books. New York, NY. 2000.
Paretsky, Sara. Hard Time: A V. I. Warshawski Novel. Dell Publishing. 1999.
Pronzini, Bill. The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels Twelve Espionage
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Carroll & Graf Publishers. New York, NY.2005.
Raphael, Lawrence W. Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective
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Sayers, Dorothy L. Gaudy Night. HarperTorch. New York, NY. 2006.
Electronic Sources
http:// library.thinkquest. org/J002344/Anatomy.html. "Anatomy of a Mystery."
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