Category L (Mystery and detective fiction)
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L01 |
Eric A. Burgess, A Killing Frost. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1961. Pp. 247-256 |
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Used by permission of William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd. |
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The beginning of the first page is omitted to avoid too much dialogue |
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2,006 words |
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L02 |
Charles Dixon, Ministry Murder. London: Robert Hale and Company, 1961. Pp. 156-163 |
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43 made use of [made us of] |
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2,002 words |
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L03 |
Bill Knox, Die for Big Betsy. London: John Long Ltd., 1961. Pp. 161-168 |
2-195 |
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Used by permission of William Knox |
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2,012 words |
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L04 |
Pamela Barrington, (i.e. Muriel V. Barling), The Gentle Killer. London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., Ltd., 1961. Pp. 185-192 |
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Used by permission of Barrie & Jenkins |
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Note |
Substandard features in dialogue |
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2,000 words |
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L05 |
Maude Parker, Death Makes a Deal. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1961. Pp. 199-204 |
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Used by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd. |
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2,008 words |
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L06 |
Patricia Carlon, Circle of Fear. London: Ward Lock Ltd., 1961. Pp. 26-32 |
2-191 |
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2,024 words |
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L07 |
Rosemary Johns, Echo From the Past. London: Robert Hale and Company, 1961. Pp. 40-46 |
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2,016 words |
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L08 |
Margaret Malcolm, Galleon House. London: Mills and Boon Ltd., 1961. Pp. 120-125 |
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Used by permission of Mills and Boon Ltd. |
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2,006 words |
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L09 |
Mary Stewart, The Ivy Tree. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1961 [Paperback edition]. Pp. 68-74 |
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Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. |
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Sic |
98 plaintain [spelling] |
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Poetry quotations |
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2,015 words |
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L10 |
Graeme Lesley, Shadow or Substance. London: Ward Lock Ltd., 1961. Pp. 98-103 |
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Foreigner English in dialogue |
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2,009 words |
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L11 |
Ian Stuart, The Snow on the Ben. London: Ward Lock Ltd., 1961. Pp. 40-48 |
2-247 |
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Non-standard English in dialogues |
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2,001 words |
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L12 |
Hartley Howard (i.e. Leopold Horace Ognall), Time Bomb. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1961. Pp. 103-108 |
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Used by permission of William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd. |
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138 the [the the] |
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2,003 words |
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L13 |
Michael Innes (i. e. J. I. M. Stewart), Silence Observed. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1961. Pp. 162-169 |
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Used by permission of J. I. M. Stewart |
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2,013 words |
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L14 |
Margot Neville (i.e. Margot Goyder and Neville Joske), Murder Beyond the Pale. London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd., 1961. Pp. 156-165 |
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Sic |
59 Full and fair ones [lexis, spelling] |
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2,016 words |
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L15 |
Francis Joseph Dunn, An Ill Wind: A Story of Murder. Southend-on-Sea: Citizen Publishing Co. Ltd., 1961. Pp. 3-8 |
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Sic |
6 here was I [function word] |
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Peculiar style including substandard features, unusual contractions (coded /2) and apparent typographical errors (marked sic). |
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2,015 words |
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L16 |
Gabriel Hythe: Death of a Scapegoat. London: MacDonald and Co. Publishers Ltd., 1961. Pp. 49-54 |
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Used by permission of Rupert Crew Ltd. |
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2,007 words |
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L17 |
Nigel Morland, The Dear, Dead Girls: A Mrs Pym Story. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1961. Pp. 145-151 |
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164 blow [bow] |
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2,002 words |
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L18 |
Hillary Waugh, Murder on the Terrace. London: W. Foulsham and Co. Ltd., 1961. Pp. 68-77 |
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2,000 words |
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L19 |
Frank Dobbs, Speech Day Murder. London: Robert Hale and Company, 1961. Pp. 164-169 |
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Used by permission of Frank Dobbs |
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2,008 words |
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L20 |
John Creasey, Follow the Toff. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1961. Pp. 9-15 |
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Used by permission of Lynette Howis |
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Non-standard English (dialect, foreigner English) in dialogue |
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2,006 words |
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L21 |
Joan Aiken, "That Long Wet Summer", Everywoman and Woman's Fair (December, 1961, 59-60 |
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2,010 words |
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L22 |
[ANON.], "Whispering Tongues Blamed Her", Secrets (March 4, 1961), 9-11 |
2-216 |
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Used by permission of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. |
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2,000 words |
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L23 |
John O'London's |
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A. Humphrey ap Evans, The Assessor" (March 9, 1961), 266-277 |
2-146 |
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B. Nat Easton, "The Way of Escape" (March 30, 1961), 358-359 |
147-189 |
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A. Used by permission of Humphrey ap Evans |
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2,002 words |
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L24 |
Edmund Crispin (i.e. Bruce Montgomery), "Too Clever for Scotland Yard", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, British edition (February, 1961), 45-50 |
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Used by permission of Edmund Crispin |
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Corr |
3 withdrawal [withdrawl] |
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2,018 words |