Subject: Detective and mystery stories › History and criticism

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• Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (525 copies)
• Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons (280 copies)
• The Sign of Three. Peirce, Holmes, Dupin by Umberto Eco (123 copies)
• The Art of the Mystery Story by Howard Haycraft (103 copies)
• Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover's Companion by Ian Ousby (85 copies)
• The Big Book of Noir by Lee Server (74 copies)
• Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective… by Howard Haycraft (68 copies)
• The Murder Book: An Illustrated History of the Detective… by Tage La Cour (57 copies)
• The Mystery Story by John Ball (51 copies)
• Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story by Ernest Mandel (48 copies)
• The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic… by John T. Irwin (43 copies)
• Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays by Robin W. Winks (32 copies)
• Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise by Richard Stanley Allen (32 copies)
• Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries & Mystery Writing by Hillary Waugh (29 copies)
• Modus operandi: An excursion into detective fiction by Robin W. Winks (27 copies)
• Speaking of Murder: Interviews With the Masters of Mystery… by Ed Gorman (27 copies)
• Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective Crime Short… by Ellery Queen (25 copies)
• Masters of Mystery: A Study of the Detective Story by Henry Douglas Thomson (24 copies)
• Recipes for Crime by Kerry Greenwood (24 copies)
• The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary… by Glenn W. Most (24 copies)
• The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature… by Joel Black (23 copies)
• Crimes of the Scene : A Mystery Novel Guide for the… by Nina King (22 copies)
• Criminal Convictions: Errant Essays on Perpetrators of… by Nicolas Freeling (18 copies)
• Murder in print : a guide to two centuries of crime fiction by Melvyn P Barnes (13 copies)
• Chroniques by Jean-Patrick Manchette (13 copies)
• What About Murder? A Guide to Books About Mystery and… by Jon L. Breen (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)
• The dangerous edge by Gavin Lambert (12 copies)
• The Collector's Book of Detective Fiction by Eric Quayle (12 copies)
• Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel by William David Spencer (9 copies)
• The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley (9 copies)
• The development of the detective novel by A. E. Murch (9 copies)
• The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers on Their Art by Lucy Freeman (9 copies)
• The Reader and the Detective Story by George N. Dove (8 copies)
• The detective novel of manners : hedonism, morality, and… by Hanna Kurz Charney (7 copies)
• The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated… by Waltraud Woeller (7 copies)
• The strand magazine by Strand Magazine  (7 copies)
• How to Enjoy Detective Fiction by Gilbert Thomas (6 copies)
• Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International… by Walter Albert (6 copies)
• Mordisk familjebok by Jan Broberg (6 copies)
• Sleuths, Inc. : studies of problem solvers, Doyle, Simenon,… by Hugh Eames (6 copies)
• A Literary Symbiosis: Science Fiction/Fantasy Mystery… by Hazel Beasley Pierce (5 copies)
• Crime fiction criticism : an annotated bibliography by Timothy W. Johnson (4 copies)
• It's a print! : detective fiction from page to screen by William Reynolds (4 copies)
• 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction by Salem Press (3 copies)
• Mord i minne : 12 kapitel om deckare och… by Jan Broberg (3 copies)
• La novela policíaca; síntesis histórica a través de sus… by César E. Diaz (2 copies)
• On Detective Fiction and Other Things by G. F. McCleary (2 copies)
• You know my method : the science of the detective by J.K. Van Dover (2 copies)

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