Appeal Factors, Annotations and More

These are courtesy of the New Jersey Regional Cooperatives:  Reader's Advisory:  The Complete Specturm

Appeal factors from NLS

Read Alikes

Nice link--from anniston library

Romance Read Alikes from likesbooks.com  (last update 2010)

Hennepin County
 
Book psychic

Novelist Plus! (need to type in your library card number...this is the Minuteman connection)

ATN Reading Lists Read Alikes 

Onandoga County Read Alikes 

Downer's Grove ReadAlikes

GNOOKS literature map

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amateur detectives--From the History of Mystery by Max Allan Collins

Edgar Allen Poe “The Murders In The Rue Morgue”  --Poe’s chief innovation, the amateur detective, sets the stage for countless eccentric sleuths.  

Due to the unexpected popularity of his character, Dupin, Poe wrote two more stories featuring the ecccentric detective:  “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1842) and “The Purloined Letter” (1845).  In doing so, the tortured poet created the first detective series.  A writer of Poe’s stature writing in this form placed the genre firmly in the ranks of fine literature.  

 Brief look at where the genre of amateur detectives began.  In 1841, when C. Auguste Dupin made his memorable first appearance in “The Murders In The Rue Morgue,” life in both America and Europe was considerably different than today.  Not only did a vast gulf exist between rich and poor, but between the literate and illiterate.  Nearly a quarter of the American people were still unable to read, most of those in the lower-income brackets.

After Dupin (1841, C. Auguste Dupin) ”Murders In The Rue Morgue” opened the door, many a disdainful detective slipped through after him.

Here is Max Allan Collins' fabulous blog

Link to the book 

amateur detective history--from Max Allan Collins

Nancy Drew, a series beloved by the young and the young at heart.....

AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh wrote a single mystery, The Red House Mystery, once considered to be one of the top three every written.

Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol

Aside from Nick and Nora, however, the most successful married couple in mysteries had to be Pam and Jerry North.

Here's a link to Mr and Mrs. North