Images in this gallery accompany an online exhibit available here.
This exhibit includes manuscripts, proofs, and other early textual materials; the novels themselves, however, were not digitized.
An historical overview of the genre from the 1840s through the present. Featuring authors with Mississippi ties such as W. C. Falkner, Ben Ames Williams, Newton Gayle, Elliott Chaze, Julie Smith, Thomas Harris, Nevada Barr, Carolyn Haines, Martin Hegwood, Charlaine Harris, and many more.
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![Paste-up cover. Martin Hegwood. [c.2000]. The Green-Eyed Hurricane. by Martin Hegwood](https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ms_mystery/1162/thumbnail.jpg "Paste-up cover. Martin Hegwood. [c.2000]. The Green-Eyed Hurricane. by Martin Hegwood")
