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VII Bibliography

 

a) General Bibliography

 

Bargainnier (a), Earl F. 'Introduction to Ten Women of Mystery' in Bargainnier, Earl F. (ed.) Ten Women of Mystery, Bowling Green, 1981

Barnes, Melvyn Murder in Print: A Guide to Two Centuries of Crime Fiction, London, 1986

Becker, Jens P. '"The Golden Age of the Detective Novel"; Formen des englischen Detektivromans zwischen 1914 und 1939", in Buchloh, Paul G. and Becker, Jens P. Der Detektivroman: Studien zur Geschichte und Form der englischen und amerikanischen Detektivliteratur, Darmstadt, 1978

Haycraft (a), Howard (ed.) The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York, 1946

Klein, Kathleen Gregory The Woman Detective: Gender & Genre, Urbana and Chicago, 1988

Klein, Katherine Gregory 'Dorothy Sayers' in Bargainnier, Earl F. (ed.) Ten Women of Mystery, Bowling Green, 1981

Mandel, Ernest Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story, London, 1984

Mann, Jessica Deadlier than the Male: An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing, Newton Abbot and London, 1981

Munt, Sally R. Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel, London, 1994

Murch, Alma E. The Development of the Detective Novel, London 1968

Palmer, Jerry Thrillers: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre, London, 1978

Panek, LeRoy Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel In Britain 1914-1940, Bowling Green, 1979

Reddy, Maureen T. Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel, New York, 1988

Showalter, Elaine A Literature of Their Own, Princeton, 1977

The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th Edition, Oxford, 1985

 

b) Socio-historical Bibliography

Barker, T.C. 'History: Economic and Social', in: Cox, C.B. and A.E. Dyson (eds.) The Twentieth Century Mind: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain, Vol. 1: 1900-1918, Oxford, 1972, pp.51-99

Borer, Mary Cathcart Britain - Twentieth Century: The Story of Social Conditions, London, 1966

Braybon, Gail Women Workers in the First World War: The British Experience, London, 1981

Cox, C.B. and A.E. Dyson (eds.) The Twentieth Century Mind: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain in Three Volumes, Vols. 1 and 2, Oxford, 1972

Crow, Duncan The Edwardian Woman, London, 1978

Oldfield, Sybil This Working-Day World: Women's Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945, London, 1994

Pugh, Martin Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959, London, 1992

Read, Donald 'History: Political and Diplomatic', in: Cox, C.B. and A.E. Dyson (eds.) The Twentieth Century Mind: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain, Vol. 1: 1900-1918, Oxford, 1972, pp.1-50

Stevenson, John British Society 1914-45, London, 1984

Woollacott, Angela On Her Their Lives Depend: Munition Workers in the Great War, Los Angeles, 1995

 

c) Biographical Bibliography

Barnard, Robert A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, London, 1980

Christie, Agatha An Autobiography, Glasgow, 1978

Coomes, David Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, Oxford, 1992

Gilbert, Michael 'A Very English Lady' in Keating, H.R.F. (ed.) Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, London, 1977

Grossvogel, David I. 'Death Deferred: The Long, Splendid Afterlife and Mysterious Workings of Agatha Christie' in Benstock, Bernard (ed.) Essays on Detective Fiction, London, 1983, pp. 1-17

Keating, H.R.F. (ed.) Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, London, 1977

Kenney, Catherine The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers, Kent, Ohio, 1990

Lathen, Emma 'Cornwallis's Revenge' in Keating, H.R.F. (ed.) Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, London, 1977

Lewis, Terrance L. Dorothy L. Sayers' Wimsey and Interwar British Society, Lewiston, 1994

Osborne, Charles The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie, London, 1982

Ramsay, G.C. Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mysteries, London, 1968

Symons, Julian 'Agatha and Agatha' in Symons, Julian Critical Observations, London, 1981, pp. 139-147

Watson, Colin 'The Message of Mayhem Parva' in Keating, H.R.F. (ed.) Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, London, 1977

 

d) Literary Bibliography

Primary Literature (the brackets indicate the year of the novel's first edition)

Christie, Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), Pan Books, London, 1971

--- The Murder on the Links (1923), Berkley Mystery, New York, 1984

--- The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), Berkley Mystery, New York, 1984

--- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Harper Mystery, New York, 1991

--- The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928), Fontana Books, London, 1964

Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose Body (1923), Coronet Crime, London, 1989

--- Clouds of Witness (1926), New English Library, London, 1976

--- Unnatural Death (1927), Coronet Crime, London, 1989

--- Strong Poison (1930), New English Library, London, 1988

--- Have His Carcase (1932), Coronet Crime, London, 1989

--- Murder Must Advertise (1933), New English Library, London, 1985

--- The Nine Tailors (1934), Coronet Crime, London, 1988

--- Gaudy Night (1935), Coronet Crime, London, 1990

--- Busman's Honeymoon (1937), Coronet Crime, London, 1988

 

Secondary Literature

Hall, Trevor H. Dorothy L. Sayers: Ten Literary Studies, London, 1980

Haycraft (b), Howard Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, New York, 1968

Knight, Stephen Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, London, 1980

Porter, Dennis The Pursuit of Crime: Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction, New Haven and London, 1981

Priestman, Martin Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet, London, 1990

Roth, Marty Fair & Foul Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction, Athens/Georgia and London, 1995

Symons, Julian  The Detective Story in Britain, London, 1962