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- 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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