Featuring stories whose focus is suspense, this genre includes detective stories, spy stories and novels of suspense. The detective story revolves around an attempt to solve a crime through the analysis of clues. Stories focusing on spies or secret agents and their exploits are also included in this genre. Techno-thrillers focus on warfare or intrigue relating to technologically advanced weapons system.
Print Resources
- Detecting Men: A Reader’s Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Men
- Detecting Women 2: A Reader’s Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women
- Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
- Sleuths, Sidekicks, and stooges: An Annotated Bibliography of Detectives, their Assistants, and their Rivals in Crime, Mystery, and Adventure Fiction, 1795-1995
Web Resources
- Agatha Award
- The Cluelass Home Page - A special feature of Cluelass.com is the Deadly Directory Online, a comprehensive international guide to the mystery community. The directory includes: Catacombs – library collections and archives, Hanging Together – organizations for writers and readers, Just Rewards – awards for mystery fiction and related nonfiction, Poison Penmanship – author websites and booklists.
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Macavity Awards
- Mystery Net - MysteryNet.com offers resources for Solve-it-Yourself Mysteries: Get-a-Clue (Daily), Solve-It (Free monthly email mini-mystery), and See-n-solve (Monthly interactive crime scenes mystery/detective game), Mystery Short Stories to Read Online (Classic and Contemporary), and Kids Mysteries link.
- Stop, You're Killing Me - This site contains series and sequel information for mysteries. Mystery and suspense readers will appreciate the "What’s New" link – a list of authors and characters that have been added to the site during the month, chronological lists of author titles, and a link to subscribe to the Stop, You’re Killing Me email newsletter.
- The Tangled Web UK -Site includes links to Author Profiles, Comprehensive Digests for 2005: Crime/Mystery, Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror and Audiobooks. An archive for titles 1996-2004 is also available. Tangled Web UK also provides a link to Crime Fiction Reviews, and Essays on Detective Fiction.
