Subject: Detective and mystery stories Authorship

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An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (1,815 copies)
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler (1,358 copies)
Breaker's Reef by Terri Blackstock (772 copies)
Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James (489 copies)
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler (466 copies)
Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of… by Sue Grafton (419 copies)
The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan (369 copies)
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith (361 copies)
Bell, Book, and Scandal by Jill Churchill (307 copies)
Maggie Needs An Alibi by Kasey Michaels (281 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds (244 copies)
Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard (228 copies)
The Writer's Complete Crime Reference Book by Martin Roth (221 copies)
A Conventional Corpse by Joan Hess (220 copies)
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard (219 copies)
Rough Draft by James W. Hall (219 copies)
Agatha Christie by Janet Morgan (201 copies)
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel by Hallie Ephron (200 copies)
Malicious Intent : A Writer's Guide to How Murderers,… by Sean P. MacTire (193 copies)
Maggie By The Book by Kasey Michaels (187 copies)
Such a Strange Lady by Janet Hitchman (185 copies)
The Weekend Novelist Writes A Mystery by Robert J. Ray (178 copies)
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step… by James N. Frey (176 copies)
How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the… by Carolyn Wheat (165 copies)
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936: The Making of… by Dorothy L. Sayers (165 copies)
Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work by Mauro V. Corvasce (162 copies)
Raymond Chandler: A Biography by Tom Hiney (158 copies)
Private Eyes: A Writer's Guide to Private Investigating by Hal Blythe (157 copies)
The Maltese Manuscript by Joanne Dobson (156 copies)
Writing the Modern Mystery by Barbara Norville (147 copies)
Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler (140 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life by David Coomes (134 copies)
The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and… by Raymond Chandler (134 copies)
Scratch the Surface by Susan Conant (132 copies)
You Can Write a Mystery by Gillian Roberts (130 copies)
The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane (130 copies)
Murder One: A Writer's Guide to Homicide by Mauro V. Corvasce (129 copies)
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman (128 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biography by James Brabazon (122 copies)
Talking Mysteries by Tony Hillerman (121 copies)
Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Writer's Guide to Investigators… by Greg Fallis (119 copies)
How to Write a Mystery by Larry Beinhart (103 copies)
How to Write Mysteries by Shannon OCork (100 copies)
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler (100 copies)
The Mystery of Agatha Christie by Gwen Robyns (94 copies)
Black Beech and Honeydew: An Autobiography by Ngaio Marsh (89 copies)
Dorothy and Agatha by Gaylord Larsen (88 copies)
A Smile on the Face of the Tiger by Loren D. Estleman (83 copies)
Maker and craftsman: The story of Dorothy L. Sayers by Alzina Stone Dale (71 copies)
Ross Macdonald : A Biography by Tom Nolan (70 copies)
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett by Dashiell Hammett (64 copies)
Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private… by Robert J. Randisi (54 copies)
John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles by Douglas G Greene (49 copies)
Rex Stout: A Biography by John J. McAleer (48 copies)
Myself and Michael Innes: A Memoir by J. I. M. Stewart (40 copies)
Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis (39 copies)
Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Reader's Indispensable… by Jan Grape (38 copies)
World of Raymond Chandler by Miriam Gross (36 copies)
Paperback Writer by Stephen A. Bly (34 copies)
The pulp jungle by Frank Gruber (32 copies)
Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries & Mystery Writing by Hillary Waugh (31 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography by Ralph E. Hone (30 copies)
Speaking of Murder: Interviews With the Masters of Mystery… by Ed Gorman (29 copies)
Reflex and Bone Structure by Clarence Major (27 copies)
Writing Mysteries by Margaret Lucke (25 copies)
Writing Detective and Mystery Fiction by A. S. Burack (20 copies)
In the Footsteps of Agatha Christie by François Rivière (20 copies)
In the Queens' Parlor by Ellery Queen (20 copies)
How to Write Crime by Marele Day (19 copies)
Deadlier than the male: Why are respectable English women… by Jessica Mann (18 copies)
On Crime Writing by Ross Macdonald (16 copies)
The Agatha Christie mystery by Derrick Murdoch (16 copies)
Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past by Ross Macdonald (15 copies)
The man who hated Sherlock Holmes; a life of Sir Arthur… by James Playsted Wood (14 copies)
The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews With Mystery… by Rosemary Herbert (13 copies)
Making Crime Pay: A Practical Guide to Mystery Writing by Stephanie Kay Bendel (12 copies)
Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers… by Robin W. Winks (12 copies)
How to Write and Market Your Mystery Novel: A Step-By-Step… by Jean Hager (9 copies)
Mystery Fiction: Theory and Technique by Marie Freid Rodell (9 copies)
The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers on Their Art by Lucy Freeman (9 copies)
Writing Suspense and Mystery Fiction by Abraham Saul Burack (9 copies)
Arthur Conan Doyle by Don Richard Cox (8 copies)
Tony Hillerman: A Public Life by John Sobol (8 copies)
Melville Davisson Post: man of many mysteries by Charles A. Norton (7 copies)
Edgar Wallace A Short Autobiography by Edgar Wallace (7 copies)
Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense: Break into the… by Tom Byrnes (7 copies)
Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International… by Walter Albert (6 copies)
Writing Mysteries That Sell by Harvey L. Bilker (5 copies)
Designs of darkness : interviews with detective novelists by Diana Cooper-Clark (4 copies)