Of crime fiction\'s many subgenres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the bibliomystery.
It includes works by household names such as Cornell Woolrich and John Dickson Carr, and less-remembered writers such as James Gould Cozzens and Lawrence Blochman..
This volume collects the finest of such stories written by American authors during the Golden Age of mystery -- the decades between the two World Wars.
Perhaps because it deals with a subject that authors know well, this type of plot comes up throughout the history of the genre.
These are stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books -- stories that feature a book scout as a sleuth, for example, or that find a literary heir killing to preserve an estate.
Of crime fiction\'s many subgenres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the bibliomystery
