{"id":24890,"date":"2025-04-25T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24890"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:01:23","slug":"library-addition-lachmans-a-readers-guide-to-the-american-novel-of-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24890","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Lachman&#8217;s A Reader&#8217;s Guide to The American Novel of Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another pickup for my extended library of bibliographic reference works.<\/p>\n<p>Lachman, Marvin. <b>A Reader&#8217;s Guide to the American Novel of Detection<\/b>. G. K. Hall &#038; Co., 1993. First edition hardback, an Ex-Library copy with most of the usual flaws (though UT Law Library rather than APL, so it doesn&#8217;t have the hideous APL band glued to the dust jacket), otherwise it would be a Fine\/Fine copy. Provides plot synopsis for American detective novels, along with a few different index sections (pseudonyms, series characters, settings, etc.). There are no entries for Joe R. Lansdale, Kinky Friedman, or even Dashiell Hammett, so I wonder what the criteria was for an entry here. Bought for the munificent sum of $1 at UT&#8217;s ReUse shop.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lachman-American-Detection-692x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"666\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lachman-American-Detection-692x1024.png 692w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lachman-American-Detection-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lachman-American-Detection-768x1136.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lachman-American-Detection.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the dirt on the scan is just wear on the dust jacket protector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another pickup for my extended library of bibliographic reference works. Lachman, Marvin. A Reader&#8217;s Guide to the American Novel of Detection. G. K. Hall &#038; Co., 1993. First edition hardback, an Ex-Library copy with most of the usual flaws (though UT Law Library rather than APL, so it doesn&#8217;t have the hideous APL band glued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1973,409,1064],"class_list":["post-24890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-mystery","tag-reference-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24913,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions\/24913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}