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100 must-read crime fiction novels

Shephard, Richard, author.
London, England : A & C Black, 2006. 2006

The classic era of crime fiction

Haining, Peter
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Rview Press, c2002. 2002

Colloquium on crime : eleven renowned mystery writers discuss their work

New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1986. 1986

The crime fiction handbook

Messent, Peter B.
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013. 2013

Delightful murder : a social history of the crime story

Mandel, Ernest.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1986], c1984. 1986

Detecting texts the metaphysical detective story from Poe to postmodernism

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999. 1999

Detective

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2016. 2016

Detective fiction and the ghost story : the haunted text

Cook, Michael, 1946- author.
Hampshire, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 2014

Deviance in contemporary crime fiction

Gregoriou, Christiana, 1978-
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 2007

Globalization and the state in contemporary crime fiction : a world of crime

London, [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 2016

Guilty but insane : mind and law in Golden Age detective fiction

Walton, Samantha, author.
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015. 2015

Guilty parties : a mystery lover's companion

Ousby, Ian, 1947-
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1997. 1997

Icons of mystery and crime detection from sleuths to superheroes.

Brunsdale, Mitzi.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010. 2010

The imagination of evil detective fiction and the modern world

Evans, Mary, 1946-
London ; New York : Continuum, c2009. 2009

Investigating identities questions of identity in contemporary international crime fiction

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009. 2009

Murder for pleasure; the life and times of the detective story,

Haycraft, Howard, 1905-1991.
New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1941. 1941

The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir

Lehman, David, 1948- author.
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022] 2022

Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime Detection and Espionage.

Farmington Hills : Cengage Gale Nov. 1998 1998-

Narratives of enclosure in detective fiction the locked room mystery

Cook, Michael, 1946-
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 2011

Postcolonial postmortems crime fiction from a transcultural perspective

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006. 2006