Research Guides: Literary Genres: Theme: Crime &amp; Mystery

Background & Reference Information

Whodunit?
Brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors.
Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
Provides scholars and fans of this genre with an authoritative yet playful compendium of knowledge about a literature known for its highly entertaining treatment of deadly serious puzzles.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
From film noir to police procedurals, courtroom dramas and comedies to comic books, crime news to true crime and reality TV, gaming to sexting, it is covered in this encyclopedia.

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes the full-text of books, such as the Cambridge Companions to:
Crime Fiction, American Crime Fiction, the Literature of Los Angeles, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles for the full-runs of many seminal journals. See all JSTOR's Language and Literature titles.
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The Modern Language Association's index to literature. Search MLA to find literary criticism, book reviews, and more.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Literary criticism, authors' biographies, reference resources with citations
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Find books, journals, and archival collections from libraries around the world. Request items through interlibrary loan. Great for English majors because many records include a book's table of contents.

Shows all the records in the library catalog with this subject heading.

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