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Crime-Mystery-Detective Stories: Critical Essay by Thomas M. Leitch

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SOURCE: Leitch, Thomas M. “From Detective Story to Detective Novel.” Modern Fiction Studies 29, no. 3 (autumn 1983): 475-84.

In the following essay, Leitch compares a number of crime-mystery-detective novels to the short stories from which they were expanded.

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