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Informationen zum Autor Judith A. Overmier, Rhonda Harris Taylor Klappentext Whodunnit? Managing the Mystery Collection: From Creation to Consumption reveals just who is responsible--for providing high-quality library mystery collections to fans. This resource takes you through the complicated process! from creating a mystery story to getting it to the library bookshelf and your patrons--all with clear explanations and no plot twists. Authors! readers! critics! scholars! and librarians give you an interdisciplinary inside look at the production and collection of one of the most popular genres in literature! the mystery. Zusammenfassung Takes readers through the process starting from creating a mystery story to getting it to the library bookshelf and the patrons. This book features contributions by authors, readers, critics, scholars, and librarians, who give an inside look at the production and collection of one of the most popular genres in literature, the mystery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Judith Overmier and Rhonda Harris Taylor) Bodies of Evidence: How Mystery Writers Imagine Their Worlds Through Research (Barbara Fister) Libraries and Sisters in Crime (Kathy Harig) Buying Books Online Is No Mystery (Larisa Somsel) Review Sources for Mystery Fiction (Jean Bielke-Rodenbiker) I Need a Good Mystery: Selecting for the Juvenile Reader (Nancy Larson Bluemel) African-American Mysteries (Connie Van Fleet) The Native American Detective (Rhonda Harris Taylor) The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library (Victoria Gill) The Adventure of the Unopened Box: Building the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries (Timothy J. Johnson) Mysteries in a Law Library: The Law in Popular Culture Collection at the University of Texas School of Law (Marlyn Robinson and Rhonda Hankins) Mystery and the Romance Reader (Tracy Allen) Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem: The Development of a Mystery Book Discussion Group (Elizabeth Arneth) A Brief History of Scholarly Study of Detective Fiction, with Particular Attention to the Detective & Mystery Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association (Mary P. Freier) Tracking Miriam Grace Monfredo Through Herstory, Librarianship, and Sleuthing (Judith Overmier and Rhonda Harris Taylor) Index Reference Notes Included ...
