Subject: Private investigators in literature

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• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's… by William S. Baring-Gould (153 copies)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (135 copies)
• The Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout (113 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook by Peter Haining (98 copies)
• The Bedside Companion to Sherlock Holmes by Dick Riley (90 copies)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Life and Times of Hercule… by Anne Hart (77 copies)
• Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from… by Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (77 copies)
• Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street by William S. Baring-Gould (74 copies)
• Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of… by Samuel Rosenberg (72 copies)
• The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes by Michael Hardwick (52 copies)
• The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce by Umberto Eco (50 copies)
• 221 B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (42 copies)
• Baker Street Dozen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (42 copies)
• The Television Sherlock Holmes by Peter Haining (40 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)
• Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? by T. S. Blakeney (33 copies)
• The world bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson :… by Ronald Burt De Waal (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)
• Dining With Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook by Julia Carlson Rosenblatt (30 copies)
• Seventeen Steps to 221B: A Sherlockian Collection by… by James Edward Holroyd (28 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp: Highlights from the First Four… by Philip A. Shreffler (27 copies)
• Sayers on Holmes by Dorothy L. Sayers (25 copies)
• Baker Street By-Ways (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes… by James Edward Holroyd (25 copies)
• The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion by Stephan P. Clarke (24 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)
• Sherlock Holmes Commentary by D. Martin Dakin (18 copies)
• The London of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison (18 copies)
• The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind… by Martin Fido (16 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Detected: The Problems of the Long Stories by Ian McQueen (16 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes File by Michael Pointer (15 copies)
• Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian anthology by Michael Harrison (15 copies)
• Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration by Alzina Stone Dale (15 copies)
• Rex Stout by David R. Anderson (13 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: ten literary studies by Trevor H. Hall (13 copies)
• The late Mr. Sherlock Holmes & other literary studies by Trevor H. Hall (12 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes and his creator by Trevor H. Hall (12 copies)
• The Sherlock Holmes quiz book by Albert J. Menendez (11 copies)
• Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe by Edward Thorpe (11 copies)
• Good Old Index: The Sherlock Holmes Handbook : A Guide to… by Thomas Wynne Ross (11 copies)
• The Saint and Leslie Charteris by William Oliver Guillemont Lofts (10 copies)
• On Crime Writing by Ross Macdonald (8 copies)
• The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby (6 copies)
• Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow by Thomas J. Shimeld (6 copies)
• The man who hated Sherlock Holmes; a life of Sir Arthur… by James Playsted Wood (5 copies)
• A doctor enjoys Sherlock Holmes by Edward J Van Liere (5 copies)

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