Murder for Pleasure

Upon the publication of Murder for Pleasure, Howard Haycraft (1905–91) became one of the first critics to offer a serious look at the mystery/detective genre. The publisher and editor was also a two-time Edgar Award winner and a prolific anthologist whose works include The Art of the Mystery Story, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, and The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of D...

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Upon the publication of Murder for Pleasure, Howard Haycraft (1905–91) became one of the first critics to offer a serious look at the mystery/detective genre. The publisher and editor was also a two-time Edgar Award winner and a prolific anthologist whose works include The Art of the Mystery Story, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, and The Haycraft-Queen Definitive Library of Detective Crime Mystery Fiction.

FOREWORD
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I. TIME: 1841 PLACE: AMERICA (Genesis) 1
II. THE IN-BETWEEN YEARS (Development) 28
III. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT (Renaissance) 45
IV. ENGLAND: 1890-1914 (The Romantic Era) 62
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FOREWORD
CHAPTER
I. TIME: 1841 PLACE: AMERICA (Genesis) 1
II. THE IN-BETWEEN YEARS (Development) 28
III. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT (Renaissance) 45
IV. ENGLAND: 1890-1914 (The Romantic Era) 62
V. AMERICA: 1890-1914 (The Romantic Era) 83
VI. THE CONTINENTAL DETECTIVE STORY 103
VII. ENGLAND: 1918-1930 (The Golden Age) 112
VIII. AMERICA: 1918-1930 (The Golden Age) 159
IX. ENGLAND: 1930- (The Moderns) 181
X. AMERICA: 1930- (The Moderns) 207
XI. THE RULES OF THE GAME (A Reader Looks at Writers) 223
XII. THE MURDER MARKET 259
XIII. FRIENDS AND FOES (The Critical Literature) 272
XIV. A DETECTIVE STORY BOOKSHELF 298
XV. DICTATORS, DEMOCRATS, AND DETECTIVES 312
XVI. THE FUTURE OF THE DETECTIVE STORY 319
XVII. A COMPREHENSIVE DETECTIVE STORY QUIZ 327
CHAPTER PAGE
XVIII. WHO'S WHO IN DETECTION 340
APPENDIX A: "THE PURLOINED LETTER" CONTROVERSY 387
APPENDIX B: SHERLOCK HOLMES' NAME AND OTHER ADDENDA 391
INDEX 395
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