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

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• Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (437 copies)
• Murder ink: The mystery reader's companion by Dilys Winn (371 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's… by William S. Baring-Gould (348 copies)
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (271 copies)
• Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel by Julian Symons (255 copies)
• Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery by Dilys Winn (195 copies)
• Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard (185 copies)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Life and Times of Hercule… by Anne Hart (141 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes Companion by Peter Haining (137 copies)
• The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne (136 copies)
• Naked Is the Best Disguise: The Death and Resurrection of… by Samuel Rosenberg (132 copies)
• The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from… by Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (132 copies)
• Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books by H. R. F. Keating (125 copies)
• Gun in cheek : a study of "alternative" crime fiction by Bill Pronzini (109 copies)
• Baker Street Dozen by Arthur Conan Doyle (101 copies)
• Agatha Christie : the woman and her mysteries by Gillian Gill (98 copies)
• Snobbery with violence : English crime stories and their… by Colin Watson (92 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary… by Arthur Conan Doyle (90 copies)
• Holy Clues : The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes by Stephen Kendrick (90 copies)
• Holmes and Watson by June Thomson (78 copies)
• 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (76 copies)
• The World of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Harrison (75 copies)
• Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface… by Thomas Boyle (65 copies)
• The history of mystery by Max Allan Collins (63 copies)
• The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind… by Martin Fido (62 copies)
• A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie by Robert Barnard (61 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction? by T. S. Blakeney (60 copies)
• The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson by Ronald Burt De Waal (59 copies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (59 copies)
• Holmes & Watson: A Miscellany by S. C. Roberts (58 copies)
• Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction by H. R. F. Keating (57 copies)
• My Dear Holmes: A Study in Sherlock by Gavin Brend (55 copies)
• Seventeen Steps to 221B: A Sherlockian Collection by… by James Edward Holroyd (51 copies)
• The Great Detectives by Otto Penzler (49 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes By Gas Lamp: Highlights from the First Four… by Philip Shreffler (48 copies)
• The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection by David Lehman (47 copies)
• Baker Street By-Ways (Otto Penzler's Sherlock Holmes… by James Edward Holroyd (45 copies)
• Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women… by Martha Hailey DuBose (43 copies)
• Baker Street Studies by H. W. Bell (42 copies)
• The Lady Investigates: women detectives and spies in… by Patricia Craig (41 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration by Allen Eyles (41 copies)
• Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (41 copies)
• Sayers on Holmes by Dorothy L. Sayers (41 copies)
• The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers by Catherine Kenney (40 copies)
• "Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction by T. J. Binyon (40 copies)
• A Sherlock Holmes Commentary by D. Martin Dakin (40 copies)
• Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime by H. R. F. Keating (37 copies)
• Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration by Alzina Stone Dale (36 copies)
• Sherlock Holmes in America by Bill Blackbeard (33 copies)
• The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction by Deane Mansfield-Kelley (33 copies)

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