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The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
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The lineup : the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives

Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Otto Penzler
ISBN: 9780316031936 0316031933
OCLC Number: 318879241
Description: viii, 406 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Otto Penzler.

Abstract:

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.

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