Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers
- ISBN-10
- 0312824181
- ISBN-13
- 9780312824181
- Category
- American fiction
- Pages
- 1094
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Author
- John M. Reilly
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