The Lineup :  The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives / 
edited by Otto Penzler. 
 - 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. 
 - New York :  Back Bay Books,  2010. 
 - viii, 402 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Jack Taylor /  Jack Reacher /  Hieronymus Bosch /  Charlie Parker /  Elvis Cole and Joe Pike /  Lincoln Rhyme /  Inspector Morse /  Charlie Resnick /  Bob Lee Swagger /  Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus /  Alex Delaware /  Dismas Hardy /  Tess Monaghan /  Rambo /  Mallory /  Spenser /  Lou Boldt /  Charlotte and Thomas Pitt /  Aloysius X. L. Pendergast /  John Rebus /  Precious Ramotswe /  by Ken Bruen --  by Lee Child --  by Michael Connelly --  by John Connolly --  by Robert Crais --  by Jeffery Deaver --  by Colin Dexter --  by John Harvey --  by Stephen Hunter --  by Faye Kellerman --  by Jonathan Kellerman --  by John Lescroart --  by Laura Lippman --  by David Morrell --  by Carol O' Connell --  by Robert B. Parker --  by Ridley Pearson --  by Anne Perry --  by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child --  by Ian Rankin --  by Alexander McCall Smith. 
<br/><br/> Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316031943 0316031941 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, American--Sources.<br/>Detective and mystery stories, English--Sources.<br/>Characters and characteristics in literature.<br/>Detectives in literature.<br/>Detective and mystery stories--Authorship.<br/>Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.<br/>Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 374 .D4 L56 2010