Books

March, 1990

The world of mystery and detective fiction has grown so large that searching for particular titles requires a literary sleuth to investigate entire bookstores now devoted to the subject. Happily, a new edition of the most comprehensive guide to crime fiction, A Catalogue of Crime (Harper & Row), by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, has just been enlarged to include books published through 1988. For still more recent additions, however; here's the docket:P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James prov...

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