There was a revised edition of CATALOGUE OF CRIME, in 1986-
but I never could see it.
'Catalogue...' was praised because (as I read somewhere)it
seems to be the first attempt to gather such a number of
comments about works of crime/mystery fiction. Maybe this
explains why it still appears in to-day references (?)
The duo wrote also prefaces to each of the fifty
"classics" of crime lit reprinted by Garland Publishing. A
short volume (about 100 pp) gathers these prefaces: 'A Book
of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950' -
1976
Just to add to Barzun's biblio.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
--- Kevin Burton Smith <
kvnsmith@colba.net> wrote:
> Bill Hagen wrote:
>
> >I notice too
> >that he co-authored a reference work (with
Wendell
> Taylor) called A
> >Catalogue of
> >Crime (1971).
>
> Yeah. I remember going through it quite a few
times
> several years ago
> at a local library. While any ambitious
> bibliographical/critical work
> of that scope is bound to contain errors, I seem
to
> recall A
> Catalogue of Crime having some real honkers,
and
> some of the opinions
> (even if they are only opinions) really out
to
> lunch.
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