Subject: Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism

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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (915 copies)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and… by Daniel Stashower (654 copies)
Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (597 copies)
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium by Elizabeth Peters (544 copies)
'G' Is for Grafton : The World of Kinsey Millhone by Natalie Hevener Kaufman (228 copies)
Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery by Dilys Winn (228 copies)
The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys by Carole Kismaric (217 copies)
Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street by William S. Baring-Gould (187 copies)
Gun In Cheek: A Study Of "Alternative" Crime Fiction by Bill Pronzini (129 copies)
The Girl Sleuth: On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton,… by Bobbie Ann Mason (100 copies)
The Nancy Drew Scrapbook: 60 Years of America's Favorite… by Karen Plunkett-Powell (92 copies)
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (75 copies)
Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the… by Lee Server (75 copies)
The history of mystery by Max Allan Collins (74 copies)
Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction by H. R. F. Keating (69 copies)
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and… by Patrick Anderson (57 copies)
The Great Detectives by Otto Penzler (56 copies)
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection by David Lehman (54 copies)
Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiel… by Matthew J. Bruccoli (52 copies)
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction by Deane Mansfield-Kelley (51 copies)
Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (51 copies)
Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War by Woody Haut (50 copies)
Rediscovering Nancy Drew by Carolyn Stewart Dyer (49 copies)
Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (46 copies)
The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines… by Robert Kenneth Jones (45 copies)
Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women… by Martha Hailey DuBose (43 copies)
"Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction by T. J. Binyon (43 copies)
The Black Mask Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of… by William F. Nolan (43 copies)
The Hardboiled Dicks by Ron Goulart (42 copies)
The Dime Detectives by Ron Goulart (41 copies)
Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason by Dorothy B. Hughes (40 copies)
The Shadow Scrapbook (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Walter Brown Gibson (38 copies)
Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Reader's Indispensable… by Jan Grape (38 copies)
The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen (35 copies)
Heartbreak and Vine by Woody Haut (31 copies)
Alias S S Van Dine by John Loughery (30 copies)
The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and… by Drewey Wayne Gunn (29 copies)
The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch by Betsy Caprio (29 copies)
Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference by Robert F. Moss (26 copies)
Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe by Edward Thorpe (26 copies)
Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow by Thomas J. Shimeld (25 copies)
The American Detective: An Illustrated History by Jeff Siegel (24 copies)
Willeford by Don Herron (24 copies)
Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir (23 copies)
The brownstone house of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby (22 copies)
The Detective as Historian by Ray B. Browne (21 copies)
Dashiell Hammett by Julian Symons (20 copies)
The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction by David Geherin (20 copies)
Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties by David Madden (20 copies)
Rex Stout by David R. Anderson (20 copies)
Ross MacDonald (HBJ Album Biographies) by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (19 copies)
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction by Lee Horsley (19 copies)
Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction,… by Gene D. Phillips (17 copies)
Inspecting Jews: American Jewish Detective Stories by Laurence Roth (16 copies)
Royal bloodline; Ellery Queen, author and detective by Francis M. Nevins (15 copies)
Sons of Sam Spade: The Private Eye Novel in the Seventies… by David Geherin (15 copies)
Places for Dead Bodies by Gary J. Hausladen (14 copies)
John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study by S. T. Joshi (14 copies)
The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews With Mystery… by Rosemary Herbert (13 copies)
Dashiell Hammett (Milestones of Thought) by Dennis Dooley (13 copies)
Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Maureen T. Reddy (12 copies)
Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers… by Robin W. Winks (12 copies)
Down these mean streets a man must go;: Raymond Chandler's… by Philip Durham (12 copies)
The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, and Chandler by William Marling (12 copies)
Inward Journey by Ralph B. Sipper (11 copies)
Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction by Glenwood Irons (11 copies)
The mystery writer's art by Francis M. Nevins (11 copies)
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe's Tales; A… by William L. Howarth (10 copies)
Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback… by Jon L. Breen (10 copies)
Literary Masters, Vol. 3: Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (10 copies)
Beams falling : the art of Dashiell Hammett by Peter Wolfe (9 copies)
The Police Procedural by George N. Dove (9 copies)
James Patterson: A Critical Companion by joan kotker (9 copies)
American crime fiction : studies in the genre by Brian Docherty (9 copies)
Literary Masterpieces, Vol. 3: The Maltese Falcon by Richard Layman (9 copies)
Modern Mystery Writers (Writers of English) by Harold Bloom (9 copies)
Criminal Practices: Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s by Julian Symons (8 copies)
The American Regional Mystery by Marvin Lachman (8 copies)
Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America: From… by Cynthia S. Hamilton (8 copies)
Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The… by John Evangelist Walsh (8 copies)
The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA by Ralph Willett (8 copies)
Boys From Grover Avenue: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct… by George N. Dove (8 copies)
Dimensions of Detective Fiction by Larry Landrum (8 copies)
Murder in the Millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey… by J. Kenneth Van Dover (7 copies)
Get Dutch!: A Biography of Elmore Leonard by Paul C. Challen (7 copies)
Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett by Sinda Gregory (7 copies)
One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer by Max Allan Collins (7 copies)
Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Thomas Knight (7 copies)
Crime fiction and film in the Sunshine State : Florida noir by Steve Glassman (6 copies)
The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity,… by Andrew Pepper (6 copies)
Women Authors of Detective Series: Twenty-One American and… by Moira Davison Reynolds (6 copies)
Doomed detective : The contribution of the detective novel… by Stefano Tani (6 copies)
Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel by Peter Messent (6 copies)
The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre by Kathleen Gregory Klein (6 copies)
James M. Cain (Literature and Life) by Paul Skenazy (5 copies)
Der Detektiv-Roman by Paul Gerhard Buchloh (5 copies)
Hard-Boiled Masculinities by Christopher Breu (4 copies)
A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction… by Jacques Barzun (4 copies)
Synod of Sleuths by Jon L. Breen (3 copies)
Chester Himes: A Critical Appraisal by Stephen F. Milliken (3 copies)
John D. MacDonald and the Colorful World of Travis McGee by Frank D Campbell (3 copies)
Elmore Leonard by David Geherin (2 copies)
Perry Mason: The Authorship and Reproduction of a Popular… by J. Dennis Bounds (2 copies)
Dashiell Hammett by William Marling (1 copies)
Detectives and friends : Dashiell Hammett's The glass key… by John S. Whitley (1 copies)
James van Hise presents pulp heroes of the thirties (1 copies)