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Describes the contributions of such authors as Dumas, Poe, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Chesterton, and Christie to the evolution of the detective fiction. Bibliogs

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9780837105819 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1968, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Describes the contributions of such authors as Dumas, Poe, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Chesterton, and Christie to the evolution of the detective fiction.

Product Description: An engaging and absorbing study of the detective genre running up to 1968.

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9780720623956 | Peter Owen Ltd, November 1, 1968, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An engaging and absorbing study of the detective genre running up to 1968.

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Product Description: Book by Brockington, J.

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9780408672504, titled "Students' Guide to Inorganic Chemistry" | Butterworth-Heinemann, June 1, 1970, cover price $8.95 | also contains Cocktail Noir | About this edition: Book by Brockington, J.

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Product Description: Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda -- a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon.

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9780224606226 | Jonathan Cape, July 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | also contains The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie | About this edition: Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas.

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9780313220623, titled "Crime, Detective, Espionage, Mystery, and Thriller Fiction and Film: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Critical Writing Through 1979" | Greenwood Pub Group, January 1, 1981, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Product information not available.

Product Description: Light shelf wear.

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9780024248503 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Comic Crime | About this edition: Light shelf wear.
9780024248503 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Comic Crime | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

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Four newspaper reporters risk their lives to investigate the possiblity of a government cover-up of an encounter with extraterrestrial creatures

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9780380833375 | Avon Books, May 1, 1983, cover price $3.50 | also contains The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story | About this edition: Four newspaper reporters risk their lives to investigate the possiblity of a government cover-up of an encounter with extraterrestrial creatures

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Product Description: The advent of Court TV and the increasing news coverage of high-profile trials have pushed legal proceedings to the forefront of public interest today. Jon L. Breen has answered a growing demand for information with a second edition of Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction, a critical bibliography of courtroom fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780810836747 | 2 sub edition (Scarecrow Pr, January 1, 2000), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The advent of Court TV and the increasing news coverage of high-profile trials have pushed legal proceedings to the forefront of public interest today.
9780810817418 | Scarecrow Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The advent of Court TV and the increasing news coverage of high-profile trials have pushed legal proceedings to the forefront of public interest today.

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Product Description: The author looks at the master of the hard-boiled novel, James M. Cain, through six perspectives: the tough and proletarian writers; popular fiction writing as a career; writing for the movies and the adaptation of novels to film; the pure novel; the influence of American fiction on European fiction; and the aesthetics of popular culture...read more

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9780810817500 | Scarecrow Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The author looks at the master of the hard-boiled novel, James M.

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Product Description: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime...read more
By Earl Bargainnier (editor)

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9780879723835 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, January 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed.

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9780879723842 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, January 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed.
9780024248503, titled "Environmental Interiors" | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Environmental Interiors | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

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Product Description: Is the detective novel popular fiction or serious literature? This collection of essays examines the historical, literary, and critical aspects of the genre. Three interrelated aspects of detective fiction are addressed: the mystery story as a vehicle for social criticism, women crime writers, and the American hard-boiled detective story--its origins in cowboy fiction, recent trends, and whether the mean streets still belong exclusively to men...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313260360 | Praeger Pub Text, February 11, 1988, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Is the detective novel popular fiction or serious literature?

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The world's most popular sports, from baseball, football, and hockey to archery tennis, and squash, are covered in this colorful introduction that delineates the equipment, rules, and history of each game
By Tim Hammond and Dave King (illustrator)

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9780394896168 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection | About this edition: Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

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9780394996165 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $20.99 | also contains From Pea to Pumpkin: A Baby Journal | About this edition: Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

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Product Description: Contributors and their subjects include Donald E. Westlake on Peter Rabe, Loren D. Estleman on Donald Hamilton, Bill Crider on Harry Whittington, Marvin Lachman on Ed Lacy, Max Allan Collins on Jim Thompson, Jon L. Breen on Vin Packer, George Kelley on Marvin H...read more

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9780810822320 | Scarecrow Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Contributors and their subjects include Donald E.

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Product Description: For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries. Some writers (Edgar Allan Poe or Dashiell Hammett, for example) have attracted a considerable body of critical response; others have been the focus of less scrutiny...read more

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9780810828049 | Scarecrow Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: For more than a century, the mystery and detective story has been among the most popular forms of fiction in bookstores and libraries.

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Product Description: Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail...read more

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9780292711310 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, December 1, 1990), cover price $30.00 | also contains Le Verrier: Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer | About this edition: Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience.

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9780292711365 | Univ of Texas Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $19.95

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John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr’s entire work and pays particular attention to this author’s three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale. (view table of contents)

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9780879724771 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, March 1, 1991, cover price $35.95

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9780879724788 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.

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Product Description: In this collection of original essays, several prominent writers and critics of the genre examine the interface of theology and detection. Edward D. Hoch discusses Roman Catholic sleuths; James Yaffe discusses Jews in detective fiction; Marvin Lachman discusses the use of religious cults as mystery story backgrounds; co-editor Breen writes of Protestant religious mysteries and on Mormonism in the mystery; and four authors of mysteries about religious detectives―William X...read more

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9780810823822 | Scarecrow Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: In this collection of original essays, several prominent writers and critics of the genre examine the interface of theology and detection.

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Product Description: This text focuses on and emphasizes the conceptual, experimental, exploratory and scientific nature of statistical reasoning, using real data throughout. The "World Bank Data Set" provides context and motivation for students, giving them a wealth of examples and exercises...read more

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9780534135782 | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $84.95 | also contains Agatha Christie | About this edition: This text focuses on and emphasizes the conceptual, experimental, exploratory and scientific nature of statistical reasoning, using real data throughout.

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Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives. Selling presents selling theories and skills and gives students plenty of opportunity to apply them, showing how salespeople operate in real-life selling situations. This gives students a solid foundation for the more specific sales training they receive on the job..

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9780073136905 | 6 edition (Irwin Professional Pub, November 25, 2005), cover price $181.10
9780073229409 | 6 pck edition (Irwin Professional Pub, November 25, 2005), cover price $208.75 | About this edition: Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives.
9780071215190 | 5th edition (Irwin Professional Pub, June 1, 2004), cover price $6.26 | About this edition: Using real people, real stories, real examples, and real situations, Selling: Building Partnerships, 6/e, delivers an exciting new approach that will help your students develop the partnerships that will promote success in their careers and in their lives.
9780072866803 | 5 har/cdr edition (Irwin Professional Pub, June 1, 2003), cover price $173.60 | About this edition: Selling: Building Partnerships, 5/e, by Weitz, Castleberry, and Tanner is the first text to integrate the partnerships/relationship theme in the selling course.
9780072549287 | 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, February 1, 2003), cover price $55.01 | also contains Dreamboy Calendar 2005
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9781428804630 | 4th edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006), cover price $29.95

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