Subject: Detective and mystery stories, American › History and criticism

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Books under this subject

• Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (845 copies)
• The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and… by Daniel Stashower (606 copies)
• Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (528 copies)
• Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium by Elizabeth Peters (514 copies)
• Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery by Dilys Winn (215 copies)
• 'G' Is for Grafton : The World of Kinsey Millhone by Natalie Hevener Kaufman (212 copies)
• The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys by Carole Kismaric (203 copies)
• Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street by William S. Baring-Gould (173 copies)
• Gun In Cheek: A Study Of "Alternative" Crime Fiction by Bill Pronzini (120 copies)
• The Girl Sleuth: On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton,… by Bobbie Ann Mason (99 copies)
• The Nancy Drew Scrapbook: 60 Years of America's Favorite… by Karen Plunkett-Powell (83 copies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (69 copies)
• The history of mystery by Max Allan Collins (67 copies)
• Danger Is My Business: An Illustrated History of the… by Lee Server (66 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)
• The Great Detectives by Otto Penzler (55 copies)
• The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection by David Lehman (51 copies)
• Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiel… by Matthew J. Bruccoli (50 copies)
• Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War by Woody Haut (47 copies)
• Rediscovering Nancy Drew by Carolyn Stewart Dyer (47 copies)
• Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (47 copies)
• Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (45 copies)
• "Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction by T. J. Binyon (44 copies)
• The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction by Deane Mansfield-Kelley (44 copies)
• Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women… by Martha Hailey DuBose (43 copies)
• The Hardboiled Dicks by Ron Goulart (41 copies)
• The Black Mask Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of… by William F. Nolan (39 copies)
• Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason by Dorothy B. Hughes (38 copies)
• Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Reader's Indispensable… by Jan Grape (37 copies)
• The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines… by Robert Kenneth Jones (37 copies)
• The Dime Detectives by Ron Goulart (34 copies)
• The Shadow Scrapbook (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Walter Brown Gibson (32 copies)
• The Tragedy of Errors and Others by Ellery Queen (31 copies)
• The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and… by Drewey Wayne Gunn (29 copies)
• Heartbreak and Vine by Woody Haut (29 copies)
• Alias S S Van Dine by John Loughery (28 copies)
• Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe by Edward Thorpe (26 copies)
• Willeford by Don Herron (23 copies)
• Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference by Robert F. Moss (23 copies)
• The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch by Betsy Caprio (22 copies)
• Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow by Thomas J. Shimeld (22 copies)
• Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir (22 copies)
• The American Detective: An Illustrated History by Jeff Siegel (21 copies)
• Rex Stout by David R. Anderson (21 copies)
• The Detective as Historian by Ray B. Browne (21 copies)
• Dashiell Hammett by Julian Symons (20 copies)
• Ross MacDonald (HBJ Album Biographies) by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (19 copies)
• Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties by David Madden (18 copies)
• The brownstone house of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby (18 copies)

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