Detective & Mystery Literature

Your search for information on Detective & Mystery Literature can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Suggested subject headings include:

detective and mystery stories

� detective and mystery stories, american

� Detective and mystery stories, American -- Bibliography.

� Detective and mystery stories, American -- Dictionaries.

� Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.

� Detective and mystery stories, American -- Afro-American authors.

� Detective and mystery stories, American -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism.

american literature california
california literary collections
california in literature
cain, james m
chandler, raymond
crime in literature

Author Search:
mosley, walter
cain, james m
chandler, raymond

Listed below are some books that may be useful in your research.

Raymond Chandler : a biography / Tom Hiney. CALL NUMBER: PS3505.H3224 Z67 1997	Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction : authors / edited by Frank N. Magill. CALL NUMBER: [REF] PN3448.D4 C75 1988 v 1,2,3 & 4
The life of Raymond Chandler / Frank MacShane. CALL NUMBER: PS3505.H3224 Z7	Gay and lesbian characters and themes in mystery novels : a critical guide to over 500 works in English / by Anthony Slide. CALL NUMBER: [REF] PR1309.D4 S55 1993
The American roman noir : Hammett, Cain, and Chandler / William Marling. CALL NUMBER: PS374.D4 M33 1995	Cain : the biography of James M. Cain / Roy Hoopes. CALL NUMBER: PS3505 .A3113 Z69 1987
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles / [selected by] Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver. CALL NUMBER: PS3505.H3224 A6 1987	James M. Cain / Madden, David. CALL NUMBER: PS3505.A3113 Z8
Encyclopedia of mystery and detection / Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler, editors CALL NUMBER: [REF] PN3448 .D4 E5	Mystery and suspense writers : the literature of crime, detection, and espionage / Robin W. Winks, ed. CALL NUMBER: [REF] PR830.D4 M97 1998 v1-2
Raymond Chandler speaking. Edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. CALL NUMBER: PS3505.H3224 Z53	Famous movie detectives / Michael R. Pitts. CALL NUMBER: PN1995.9.D4 P5
Out of the woodpile : black characters in crime and detective fiction / Frankie Y. Bailey. CALL NUMBER: PS374.D4 B34 1991	American mystery and detective novels : a reference guide / Larry Landrum. CALL NUMBER: [REF] PS374.D4 L34 1999
The new hard-boiled dicks : heroes for a new urban mythology / by Robert E. Skinner. CALL NUMBER: PS374.D4 S55 1995	Detective agency ; women rewriting the hard-boiled tradition / Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. CALL NUMBER: PS374.D$ W35 1999
Multicultural detective fiction : murder from the �other� side / edited by Adrienne Johnson Gosselin. CALL NUMBER: PS374.D4 M85 1999

Online Journal and Periodical Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html. Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books. The Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

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See the Library Internet Resources handout for a complete description of our online resources.

Internet Sites

African American Mystery Page http://www.aamystery.com/	Cluelass.com The Mysterious Home Page http://www.cluelass.com/MystHome/General.html
Hardboiled Heaven http://members.tripod.com/~writer89/index.html	Raymond Chandler Web Site http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3224/
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html	Thrilling Detective Web Site http://www.thrillingdetective.com
W.W. Norton: Walter Mosley Page http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/ featured/mosley/welcome.htm

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