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Mystery Fiction

This guide will help you find related scholarship for crime / detective / mystery fiction, both at the E. J. Pratt Library and on the Web.

On the Web

Agatha Christie (and other mystery writers) in Wikipedia

Search Smart

Keep in mind that:

  • Search Engines only retrieve a portion of the information available on the web. Sometimes only a small portion.

A lot of useful information is not freely available on the web. It is proprietary, meaning someone--an author, a publisher, or institution--owns the information. More about the Invisible Web. 

  • Not all digitized information is created equal.

You need to critically analyze and evaluate the information you intend to use.

  • Not all information has been digitized.

There are still BOOKS in the Library. And other print and analog resources that do not exist on the Web.