Subject: Detective and mystery stories, English › History and criticism

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• Murder ink: The mystery reader's companion by Dilys Winn (304 copies)
• Everyday Life in Early America by David F. Hawke (190 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's… by William S. Baring-Gould (154 copies)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (136 copies)
• Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel:… by Julian Symons (129 copies)
• Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery by Dilys Winn (118 copies)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Life and Times of Hercule… by Anne Hart (79 copies)
• Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from… by Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (77 copies)
• Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha… by Pierre Bayard (74 copies)
• Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books by H. R. F. Keating (73 copies)
• Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of… by Samuel Rosenberg (72 copies)
• The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne (69 copies)
• Gun in Cheek: A Study of "Alternative" Crime Fiction by Bill Pronzini (66 copies)
• Holy Clues : The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Kendrick (53 copies)
• The History of Mystery (Art Fiction Series) (Art Fiction… by Max Allan Collins (45 copies)
• Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their… by Colin Watson (43 copies)
• 221 B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (42 copies)
• Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries by Gillian Gill (42 copies)
• Baker Street Dozen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (41 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary… by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (36 copies)
• The world of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison (35 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Compendium by Peter Haining (34 copies)
• The world bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson :… by Ronald Burt De Waal (33 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? by T. S. Blakeney (33 copies)
• My Dear Holmes: A Study in Sherlock (Otto Penzler's… by Gavin Brend (32 copies)
• Holmes and Watson by June Thomson (32 copies)
• Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead by Thomas Boyle (30 copies)
• Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction by H. R. F. Keating (28 copies)
• Seventeen Steps to 221B: A Sherlockian Collection by… by James Edward Holroyd (28 copies)
• Holmes & Watson: A Miscellany by S. C. Roberts (28 copies)
• A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard (27 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp: Highlights from the First Four… by Philip A. Shreffler (27 copies)
• Murder Will Out: Detective in Fiction from Poe to the… by T.J. Binyon (27 copies)
• Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (27 copies)
• Baker Street By-Ways (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes… by James Edward Holroyd (25 copies)
• Sayers on Holmes by Dorothy L. Sayers (25 copies)
• The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection by David Lehman (25 copies)
• The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in… by Patricia Craig (25 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration by Allen Eyles (24 copies)
• Baker Street Studies (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes… by H. W. Bell (22 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes in America by Bill Blackbeard (20 copies)
• The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers by Catherine Kenney (20 copies)
• Agatha Christie: First lady of crime by H. R. F. Keating (18 copies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge… by Martin Priestman (18 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Commentary by D. Martin Dakin (18 copies)
• The Great Detectives by Otto Penzler (18 copies)
• The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind… by Martin Fido (17 copies)
• Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women… by Martha Hailey DuBose (16 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Detected: The Problems of the Long Stories by Ian McQueen (16 copies)
• Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration by Alzina Stone Dale (15 copies)

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