Full name: Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

Author: Julian Symons Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780892964963 0892964960

When it appeared in 1972 'Bloody Murder' was greeted as the classic study of crime fiction, a book "heartily recommended to anyone who has ever enjoyed a detective story or a crime novel" as Kingsley Amis wrote. Subsequent edition ensured that this study was kept up to date to include later authors, and a third and final revised edition was issued in 1993 in celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year. The views expressed are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of "strip cartoon stories". But the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within the genre. Similar books: Snobbery with violence by Colin Watson The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Martian by Andy Weir Wonder by R. J. Palacio It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Matilda by Roald Dahl 1984 by George Orwell On Writing by Stephen King Ready Player One by Ernest Cline