African American Mystery Writers

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African American Mystery Writers is written by Frankie Y. Bailey and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786452331 (ISBN 10) and 9780786452330 (ISBN 13).

The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of "doing justice," and the role of African American cultural vernacular in mystery fiction. A final section focuses on readers and reading, examining African American mystery writers' access to the marketplace and the issue of the "double audience" raised by earlier writers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.