Caught Up in Crime - A Reader's Guide to Crime Fiction and Nonfiction

Informationen zum Autor Gary Warren Niebuhr is library director, Greendale Public Library, Wisconsin. An avid mystery fan, he has written several guides to the literature, including the award-winning Make Mine a Mystery (Libraries Unlimited, 2003) and numerous articles in mystery publications, as well as a private eye short story, Over There. In 2005, he received RUSA's Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award for his contributions to library services for adults, most notably in readers' advisory. In 1995, he organized EYECON, the first conference to honor Private Eye Writers of America. He has been leading a mystery book discussion at his library for thirteen years, and has led mystery book discussions in other locations as well. Klappentext More than 600 crime titles are described and organized according to popular reading interests. Welcome to the dark side of the crime genre, where creeps and psychopaths dominate and the good guys don't always win. Award winning librarian Gary Warren Niebuhr organizes and describes more than 600 crime titles according to popular reading tastes. He adopts the premise that, as in mystery, character is the defining appeal characteristic of these books, but the characters are of a different sort. Books are arranged in three broad categories-"professional criminals," "caught up in crime," and "criminal detectives." Within these chapters, titles are organized in sections on the mob, serial killers, white-collar crime, criminals on the run, victims, cops-gone-bad, rogues, and more. True Crime is separated from fictional works. Annotations give brief plot summaries, noting the special appeal of the characters involved to help anyone find the perfect book. Zusammenfassung More than 600 crime titles are described and organized according to popular reading interests. Welcome to the dark side of the crime genre! where creeps and psychopaths dominate and the good guys don't always win. ...

Product details

• Authors: Gary Niebuhr, Gary Warren Niebuhr, Niebuhr Gary Warren
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9781591584285
• ISBN: 978-1-59158-428-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Genreflecting Advisory (Hardco; Genreflecting Advisory Series; Genreflecting Advisory (Hardco
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form