The Crime and Mystery Book: A Reader's Companion

This is from the back cover: "'The Crime and Mystery Book' tells the whole story, accompanied by dozens of special features packed with information to surprise even the most avid fan. Classic puzzles like the locked-room mystery are analysed and the Ten Commandments for the detective novel, 1930s style, defined. Want to know what bean-shooters, roscoes, Chicago overcoats, nippers, and buttons are? Look them up in the hard-boiled dictionary." So many of your favourite authors and their important titles are mentioned. There really is so much more in this "guide to crime and mystery writing."