Details

Description

x, 227 pages ; 23 cm.

Series

ALA readers' advisory series

ALA readers' advisory series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.

Summary

Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.

Contents

Mysteries: Why readers love them -- Short history of the mystery -- Mystery subgenres: Characteristics and appeal -- Mystery readers and the readers' advisory interview -- Resources: it's who, not what, you know -- Collection development -- Marketing your mystery collection -- Appendixes: Mystery book lists by subgenre -- Mystery book lists by theme -- Genre resources.

Subject

Fiction in libraries -- United States.

Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Detective and mystery stories.

Readers' advisory services -- United States.

Detective and mystery stories -- Bibliography.

Added Author

Morrison, Joanna.

Clark, Candace, 1950-

ISBN

083890811X