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• Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke (526 copies)
• Gun In Cheek: A Study Of "Alternative" Crime Fiction by Bill Pronzini (120 copies)
• Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women by Tania Modleski (92 copies)
• The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi (90 copies)
• A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis (78 copies)
• The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman (69 copies)
• The history of mystery by Max Allan Collins (67 copies)
• The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment by Walter M. Kendrick (66 copies)
• Whodunit: A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction by H. R. F. Keating (63 copies)
• The Great Detectives by Otto Penzler (55 copies)
• The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection by David Lehman (51 copies)
• Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (47 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)
• Places for Dead Bodies by Gary J. Hausladen (14 copies)
• Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers… by Robin W. Winks (13 copies)
• The Fatal Art of Entertainment: Interviews With Mystery… by Rosemary Herbert (13 copies)
• Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Maureen T. Reddy (11 copies)
• The mystery writer's art by Francis M. Nevins (10 copies)
• Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary… by Ken Gelder (10 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)
• Dimensions of Detective Fiction by Larry Landrum (8 copies)
• Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by Stephen Thomas Knight (7 copies)
• The Police Procedural by George N. Dove (7 copies)
• Murder in the Millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey… by J. Kenneth Van Dover (7 copies)
• The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre by Kathleen Gregory Klein (6 copies)
• Der Detektiv-Roman by Paul Gerhard Buchloh (5 copies)
• Spectrum of the fantastic : Selected Essays from the Sixth… by Donald Palumbo (4 copies)
• Designs of darkness : interviews with detective novelists by Diana Cooper-Clark (4 copies)
• A Book of Prefaces to Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction… by Jacques Barzun (4 copies)
• Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society… by Kath Filmer (4 copies)
• The dime novel western by Daryl Jones (3 copies)
• Synod of Sleuths by Jon L. Breen (3 copies)
• Thirteen classic detective stories; a critical history of… by Arthur Liebman (1 copies)