Subject: Crime in literature

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Books under this subject

• Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons (281 copies)
• Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito (174 copies)
• Gun In Cheek: A Study Of "Alternative" Crime Fiction by Bill Pronzini (120 copies)
• The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by Rosemary Herbert (115 copies)
• Snobbery with violence : English crime stories and their… by Colin Watson (100 copies)
• Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface… by Thomas Boyle (72 copies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (69 copies)
• Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction by H. R. F. Keating (63 copies)
• The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and… by Patrick Anderson (56 copies)
• Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story by Ernest Mandel (48 copies)
• Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (47 copies)
• Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War by Woody Haut (47 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (St James Guide… by John Reilly (46 copies)
• Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction by Woody Haut (37 copies)
• Dickens and Crime by Philip Arthur William Collins (34 copies)
• Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise by Richard Stanley Allen (33 copies)
• The Dick Francis Companion by Jean Swanson (29 copies)
• Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of… by John Bender (26 copies)
• Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective Crime Short… by Ellery Queen (25 copies)
• Love & Death: A Study in Censorship by Gershon Legman (21 copies)
• Criminal Convictions: Errant Essays on Perpetrators of… by Nicolas Freeling (18 copies)
• Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-1990;… by Allen J. Hubin (17 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction by Lee Horsley (17 copies)
• On Crime Writing by Ross Macdonald (15 copies)
• Murder in print : a guide to two centuries of crime fiction by Melvyn P Barnes (13 copies)
• Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers… by Robin W. Winks (13 copies)
• The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre by Tony Hilfer (12 copies)
• Art in crime writing: Essays on detective fiction by Bernard Benstock (12 copies)
• Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery… by Richard Martin (12 copies)
• St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, Fourth Edition by Jay P. Pederson (11 copies)
• Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Maureen T. Reddy (11 copies)
• Innocence and Arsenic: Studies in Crime and Literature by Albert Borowitz (10 copies)
• Continent of mystery : a thematic history of Australian… by Stephen Knight (10 copies)
• The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers on Their Art by Lucy Freeman (9 copies)
• American crime fiction : studies in the genre by Brian Docherty (9 copies)
• Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel by William David Spencer (9 copies)
• Criminal Practices: Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s by Julian Symons (8 copies)
• Spider by Robert Sampson (8 copies)
• The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated… by Waltraud Woeller (7 copies)
• Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Thomas Knight (7 copies)
• The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity,… by Andrew Pepper (6 copies)
• The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA by Ralph Willett (6 copies)
• James M. Cain (Literature and Life) by Paul Skenazy (5 copies)
• Common Spring: Crime Novel and Classic by Nadya Aisenberg (5 copies)
• Crime fiction and film in the Sunshine State : Florida noir by Steve Glassman (5 copies)
• Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and… by H. Bruce Franklin (5 copies)
• Crime fiction criticism : an annotated bibliography by Timothy W. Johnson (4 copies)
• The Swedish crime story = Svenska deckare by Bo Lundin (4 copies)
• A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction… by Jacques Barzun (4 copies)
• Criminal types in Shakespeare by August Goll (4 copies)

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