Alex Crimewriters
The Alex Dictionary of Crimewriters contains information about crime and mystery authors from around the world
The dictionary contains all kinds of crime stories, including whodunnits, police procedurals, spy stories, hardboiled detective stories, psychological thrillers....
A literary figures index makes it possible to search for hundreds of literary figures in the world of crime literature.
Sample of authors
Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child,...