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Canadian Crime Fiction
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| Self Published |
| Skene-Melvin, David |
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| $150.00 |
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| All prices in Canadian dollars unless indicated otherwise. |
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| This is the first comprehensive bibliography of Canadian crime writing ever compiled. It covers virtually every book published between 1817-1996, and includes a biographical dictionary of Canadian crime writers.
CANADIAN CRIME FICTION covers both English and French language crime fiction, which is defined as adventure, crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thrillers, as well as tales of intrigue, violence and investigation, and covers both adult and juvenile novels and plays.
This bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author, and contains two major appendices dealing respectively with crime fiction by non-Canadians set in Canada, and with crime fiction with Canadian connections. It is extensively indexed by title, date of publication, setting, main character(s), criminous roman a clefs, speculative fiction on a criminous theme, series, juveniles, the Matter of Canada, pseudonyms, and Mountie novels. Also included is a list of winners of Crime Writers of Canada “Arthur Ellis” Awards.
The biographical entries for authors (which includes authors who were born in Canada but lived elsewhere), contains a wealth of literary and social history, plus fascinating snippets of Canadian crime lore. With its breadth and depth of knowledge, CANADIAN CRIME FICTION will become the standard reference toll for aficionados, collectors, and libraries.
CANADIAN CRIME FICTION, which took more than 10 years to compile, is eclectic, idiosyncratic, eccentric, and opinionated. It will inform, entertain, delight, and annoy. It is more entertaining than the latest thriller or whodunnit.
David Skene-Melvin the recognized authority on Canadian crime fiction, was from 1984 to 1994, Executive Director of the Crime Writers of Canada. He has written extensively on Canadian crime fiction and has edited several important anthologies, including CRIME IN A COLD CLIMATE, INVESTIGATING WOMEN (female detectives by Canadian writers), BLOODY YORK (tales of mayhem, murder and mystery in Toronto past, present, and future). And in collaboration with his wife Ann, he has compiled a bibliography of criticism/reference entitled CRIME, DETECTION, ESPIONAGE, MYSTERY, AND THRILLER FICTION AND FILM.
David Skene-Melvin lives in Toronto, where he is working on a new anthology called SECRET TALES OF THE ARCTIC TRAILS, a collection of crime and adventure stories set in Canada's Far North.
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Artist Bio: David Skene-Melvin lives in Toronto, where he is working on a new anthology called SECRET TALES OF THE ARCTIC TRAILS, a collection of crime and adventure stories set in Canada's Far North.
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