Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Murder, Thrillers and Crime Fiction

by Kenneth McLeish, Valerie McLeish

Featuring over 500 writers and 2000 books, this guide follows the format of the "Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide", and steers the reader through the plethora of excellent crime writers. Authors are listed A-Z, and each entry summarizes the style of the writer and outlines several works. A series of cross references suggests suitable further reading and "menus" of books with related themes appear periodically throughout the book.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Labiche.