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Title:

British mystery writers, 1920-1939 / edited by Bernard Benstock and Thomas F. Staley.

Publisher:

Gale Research,

Copyright Date:

c1989

Description:

xi, 414 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories, English--Dictionaries.
Detective and mystery stories, English--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
Authors, English--20th century--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
English fiction--20th century--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
English fiction--20th century--Dictionaries.

Other Authors:

Benstock, Bernard.
Staley, Thomas F.

Notes:

"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348). Includes cumulative index.

Contents:

Margery Allingham -- Eric Ambler -- Michael Arlen -- H. C. Bailey -- Anthony Berkeley (A. B. Cox, Francis Iles) -- Nicholas Blake (C. Day Lewis) -- Leo Bruce (Rupert Croft-Cooke) -- Leslie Charteris -- Agatha Christie -- John Collier -- John Creasey -- Freeman Wills Crofts -- Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany) -- Gerard Fairlie -- Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) -- Winston Graham -- Graham Greene -- Cyril Hare (Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark) -- Georgette Heyer -- James Hilton -- Richard Hull (Richard Henry Sampson) -- Elspeth Josceline Huxley -- F. Tennyson Jesse -- C. H. B. Kitchin -- Ronald Arbuthnott Knox -- Philip MacDonald (Anthony Lawless, Martin Porlock) -- Ngaio Marsh -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Herman Cyril McNeile (Sapper) -- A. A. Milne -- Gladys Mitchell -- J. B. Priestley -- John Rhode (Cecil John Charles Street, Miles Burton) -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Helen Simpson -- C. P. Snow -- Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh, Gordon Daviot) -- Roy Vickers (David Durham, Sefton Kyle) -- Henry Wade (Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher) -- Patricia Wentworth (Dora Amy Elles) -- Dennis Yates Wheatley -- Ethel Lina White -- Emlyn Williams -- Valentine Williams -- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer).

Series:

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 77

ISBN:

9780810345553
0810345552

OCLC:

(OCoLC)18559878

LCCN:

88030048

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)