| Book | Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion |
| Editor | Dilys Winn |
| Contributor | Abby Adams, Catherine Aird, Ted Allbeury, Isaac Asimov, George Baker, Jacques Barzun, Peter Blake, K. Arne Blom, Carol Brener, Stanley H. Brown, Peter Bull (2), Ian Carmichael, Heron Carvic, Paul Chevigny, Children's Express, Judith Crist, Avon Curry, Eve Darge, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, William DeAndrea, Colin Dexter, Peter Dickinson, Hugh Douglas, John Gardner, Brian Garfield, Michael Gilbert, The Gordons, Pete Hamill, Leonard R. Harris, Laurence Henderson, Reginald Hill, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Hummler, P. D. James, H. R. F. Keating, Duncan Kyle, Jeanine Larmoth, John Leonard, Lowell Levine, Michael Z. Lewin, Peter Lovesey, Milt Machlin, Arnold Madison, Eugene T. Maleska, Berkely Mather, James McClure, Thomas M. McDade, Gladys Mitchell, Peter O'Donnell, George O'Toole, Robert B. Parker, David Penn, Otto Penzler, Joyce Porter, John Powers, Clifford A. Ridley, Donald Rumbelow, Roy Scheider, Clyde Collins Snow, Marilyn Stasio, Chris Steinbrunner, Ellen Stern, Eleanor Sullivan, Richard Townsend, Lawrence Treat, Alice K. Turner, Peter N. Walker, Penelope Wallace, Colin Watson, Warren Weith, Donald E. Westlake, Phyllis A. Whitney, R. M. Whyte, Robin W. Winks, Rodger J. Winn, Anne Worboys, Margaret Yorke, Tucker Coe, Timothy J. Culver, Richard Stark, Vernon Lay, Abraham Lincoln, Carol Kountz, Max Hall, John P. Oliver, Anthony Spiesman, Herb Galewitz, Thomas Lask, James H. Olander, John Watson, Suzanne Weaver, Richard R. Lingeman, "Big Mama" Birns, Lawrence Frost, Hopley Croyden, Joseph C. Stacey, Rosamund Bryce, Ione Paloma, Catherine Prezzano, Carlotta Ogelthorpe, Violet St. Clair, Ruth H. Smiley, Carolyn Fiske, Stuart Bochner, Letitia Twyffert, Thomas Seligson, R. J. Pilgrim, Margaret Boe Birns, E. R. Emmet, Gordon Bean, Lionel Chelmsford, Kenneth Patchen, Harriet Grollier, Matthew J. Mahler, Frederick Arnold, Betsy Lang, Hadrian Schwartz, Allison Wentworth, Christopher Rutledge, Lynn Strong, Michael Baden, Joyce Sanderson, Washington C. Beenson, Lee Fowler, Solomon Hastings, Peter J. Schuyten, Edmund Bergler, John Boe, Bill Vande Water, Dilys Winn |
| Publisher | Workman Publishing Company |
| Copyright Holder | Workman Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Cover photo | Jerry Darvin |
| Designed by | Paul Hanson |
| Introduction by | Dilys Winn |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1977 |
| First Printing | 1977-09 |
| Pages / Font | 522 pages / Baskerville |
| ISBN 10 | 0-89480-003-5 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | PR830.D4MS |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 823'.0872 |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 77-5282 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-517-347857 |
| Printer's Key | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 |
| Chapters | Introduction
1. The Mystery History
2. Perpetrators
3. Bloodhounds
4. Private Eyes and Spies
5. Victims
6. Modus Operandi
7. Scenes of the Crime
8. Red Herrings
9. Cops and Bobbies
10. The Lab
11. Mouthpieces
12. Caught in the Act
13. Accessories After the Fact
14. Looking for (More) Trouble
Index |
| Notes | Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing September 1977 |
