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The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
- Title
- The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives / edited by Otto Penzler.
- Publication
- New York : The Mysterious Bookshop, [2009]
- ©2009
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-3253 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- viii, 406 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Detective and mystery stories, American > Sources
- Detective and mystery stories, English > Sources
- Characters and characteristics in literature
- Detectives in literature
- Detective and mystery stories > Authorship
- Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography
- Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Novelists, American
- Novelists, English
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Sources.
- Limitation statements (Printing)
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Note
- "First edition: November 2009"--Title page verso
- Added limitation leaf: "First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, 26 lettered copies & 25 presentation copies. This is copy no. 212." Includes a blank box for the editor's autograph.
- Each story preceded by a tipped-in leaf printed with half-title and a blank box for the author's autograph.
- Contents
- Introduction / by Otto Penzler -- Jack Taylor / by Ken Bruen -- Jack Reacher / by Lee Child -- Hieronymus Bosch / by Michael Connelly -- Charlie Parker / by John Connolly -- Elvis Cole and Joe Pike / by Robert Crais -- Lincoln Rhyme / by Jeffery Deaver -- Inspector Morse / by Colin Dexter -- Charlie Resnick / by John Harvey -- Bob Lee Swagger / by Stephen Hunter -- Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus / by Faye Kellerman -- Alex Delaware / by Jonathan Kellerman -- Dismas Hardy / by John Lescroart -- Tess Monaghan / by Laura Lippman -- Rambo / by David Morrell -- Mallory / by Carol O' Connell -- Spenser / by Robert B. Parker -- Lou Boldt / by Ridley Pearson -- Charlotte and Thomas Pitt / by Anne Perry -- Aloysius X.L. Pendergast / by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child -- John Rebus / by Ian Rankin -- Precious Ramotswe / by Alexander McCall Smith.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-3253
- ISBN
- 9780316031936 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2009015540
- OCLC
- 1131906592
- Title
- The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives / edited by Otto Penzler.
- Publisher
- New York : The Mysterious Bookshop, [2009]
- Copyright Date
- ©2009
- Edition
- First edition, limited.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Library has copy no. 212.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Penzler, Otto, editor, writer of introduction.Mysterious Bookshop, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-3253