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?A comprehensive listing of writings about crime literature including biographies of writers....There are both title and subject indexes, the latter will be the book's most valuable feature for researchers. An appendix covers materials in foreign languages. This book will be used by both reference librarians and researchers. Recommended for larger collections.?-Library Journal

As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin's introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an in-depth analysis of women detective fiction by Canadians.

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold, The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold."Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee."The High Arctic has long been a land of romance, a magnet drawing adventurers. From the 60th Parallel to the North Pole across the tundra and the Barren Lands, the Far North has beckoned the brave, the foolhardy, and the curious. The myster...

Thirteen Canadian writers from the late nineteenth century to today find intrigue, mystery, and terror in the familiar streets and places of Toronto.

Heroes tells the story of Peter Bayle - heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, and anemic lover - as he visits a town in Kansas to write a story for Toronto Living magazine about the newfound love of middle-America for the quintessential Canadian game of hockey. During his research Bayle encounters a host of odd characters: a morphine-injecting reverend, a shunned reporter and his former crack-addict girlfriend, and a drug salesman with his sigh...