Mystery & Crime Crit
Start with high-confidence mystery & crime crit books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
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Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: the Greatest Detective in the World
The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age
Edgar A. Poe: a Biography
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
The Noir Thriller
Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond
Death in a Cold Climate
More Mystery & Crime Crit Books
Hard-boiled Sentimentality
The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
Places for Dead Bodies
Talking About Detective Fiction
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
The Tattooed Girl
Gumshoes
The Lineup
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
Crime Fiction
Hardboiled and High Heeled
Hardboiled and High Heeled
The Great Detective
The Complete Christie
British Women Mystery Writers
The Gay Detective Novel
Cracking the Hard-boiled Detective
James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux
The Boy Detectives
The Mysteries of the Cities
Masters of the "humdrum" Mystery
Hard-boiled Masculinities
Murder Most Modern
Gumshoe America
The Blues Detective
James M. Cain
Scandinavian Noir
V Is for Venom
Books to Die for
The Sherlock Holmes Book
A Is for Arsenic
Genre Bending