Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
"As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin" A masterpiece of literary biography." - David Peace The first critical biography of a titan of American crime fiction. Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American li ...Show more
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
$45.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After Agatha charts the explosion in women's crime writing and ...Show more
Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Moulton Mo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and five other women at the vanguard of equal rights, who were among the first to receive full degrees from Oxford University.A group biography of renown ...Show more
The Big Book of Reel Murders - Stories That Inspired Great Crime Films by Otto Penzler (Editor)
$48.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. There's the W. Somerset Maugham short story that inspired Hitchcock's Secret Agent; Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that ...Show more
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains by Otto (EDT) Penzler
$48.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common- a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt ou ...Show more
Letter to My Mother (Mini Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
$4.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.
The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat by Price, Richard
$58.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime. This fascinating compilation-edited by seasoned Times crime-beat veteran Kevin Flynn-captures the full sweep of the newspaper's coverage of the subject, from vice, serial killers, and white-collar crimes to kidnapping, ...Show more
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