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Moto . New York: The Mysterious Bookshop. A descriptive bibliography and price guide to first editions.
     
     
———. 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense . Garden City, NY: Doubleday Direct. A listing, with credits and extensive commentary on each film.
     
     
PHILLIPS, GENE D. Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. An analysis of Chandler's work in fiction, screenwriting, and on film. Preface by Billy Wilder.
     
     
SALLIS, JAMES. Chester Himes: A Biography . New York: Walker. A biography of the creator of Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
     
     
———. Difficult Lives . Brooklyn: Gryphon Books. Revised edition of a 1993 study on the life and work of noir authors Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes.
     
     
SARJEANT, WILLIAM A. S. A Policeman In Post-War Paris: The Saturnin Dax Novels of Marten Cumberland . South Benfleet, Essex, England: Geoff Bradley. A forty-four-page booklet about the series.
     
     
THOMAS, RONALD R. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. How the development of forensic science was intertwined with the evolution of the detective story.
     
     
VANDERBURGH, GEORGE A. R. Austin Freeman: The Anthropologist at Large, Thorndyke cholarship and Pastiches . Shelburne, Ontario, Canada: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. Volume 11 of The R. Austin Freeman Omnibus Edition, containing a 1980 biography by Oliver Mayo together with nearly one hundred articles by various authors, reprinted mainly from The Thorndyke File, and four pastiches.
     
     
WILLEFORD, CHARLES. Writing and Other Blood Sports . Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan, Essays, interviews, and reviews, eleven previously unpublished, by the late crime writer.
     
     
WINDRATH, HELEN, ed. They Wrote the Book: 13 Women Mystery Writers Tell All. Duluth, MN: Spinsters Ink. Essays on how they write.
     
     
Obituaries
     
     
STEVE ALLEN (1921–2000). Comedian and talk-show host who published ten show-business mysteries (at least some ghost-written), as well as three collections of short stories, some criminous.
     
     
EDWARD ANHALT (1914–2000). Oscar-winning screenwriter for Becket , who also published some twenty-five crime stories in the pulps, most under the name of "Andrew Holt."
     
     
THOMAS BABE (1941–2000). Mainstream playwright who published two suspense plays in the 1970s, Billy Irish and A Prayer for My Daughter .
     
     
CONRAD VOSS BARK (1913–2000). British journalist who published seven novels about sleuth William Holmes, 1962–68.
     
     
DAVID BEATY (1919–1999). British author of eight thrillers, notably Cone of Silence (1959), plus three others as by "Paul Stanton."
     
     
KENNETH BENTON (1909–1999). British author of eight intrigue novels, notably Spy in Chancery (1972), plus two others as by "James Kirton."
     
     
H. S. BHABRA (1955–2000). Indian/British banker residing in Canada, author of two suspense novels under his own name and two others under the pseudonym of "A. M. Kabal."
     
     
LEONARD BODIN (1911–1999). British author of a single crime novel, … And the Body Came Too (1946).
     
     
ARTYOM BOROVIK (1960–2000). Russian journalist and mystery writer, head of the Russian branch of the International Association of Crime Writers.
     
     
ROBERT (WRIGHT) CAMPBELL (1927–2000). Novelist and screenwriter who published some thirty mystery novels, including five as R. Wright Campbell and one as "F. G. Clinton," notably the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog (1986) and In La-La Land We Trust (1986).
     
     
MORRIS CARGILL (1914–2000). Jamaican journalist and radio commentator who coauthored three mysteries with John Hearne, under the pseudonym of "John Morris."
     
     
SARAH CAUDWELL (1939–2000). Well-known British lawyer and author who produced four well-received novels beginning with Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981). The final novel,