Varieties of Crime Fiction
ByPublisher Description
I. The Golden Age
Dorothy L. Sayers: Lords and Servants
John Dickson Carr: Puzzlemeister
Margery Allingham: Murder, Gangs, and Spies
Philip MacDonald: Expanding the “Cosy” Mystery
II. The Hard-Boiled School
Dashiell Hammett: Sam Spade and Others
Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets
Ross Macdonald: Family Affairs
III. The Psychological Mystery
Margaret Millar: Scars of the Psyche
Patricia Highsmith: Guilt and Innocence
L. P. Davies: The Workings of the Mind
IV. Some Contemporaries
P. D. James: The Empress’s New Clothes
Ruth Rendell: The Psychology of Murder
Sue Grafton: Hard-Boiled Female
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