Mystery & Detective Criticism
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

The Sign of the Four (a Sherlock Holmes Mystery)

Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

The Killer Across the Table

Zodiac

The Whole Art of Detection

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

Talking About Detective Fiction

The Investigation

A Is for Arsenic

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: the Greatest Detective in the World

The Education of a Coroner

The Sherlock Holmes Book

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money

The Killer Book of Serial Killers

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Reacher

The Edinburgh Mystery

Dorothy L. Sayers: the Complete Stories

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

Vampire Stories

In Pursuit of Spenser

Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories

Golden Age Detective Stories

The Serial Killer Cookbook

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness

The Annotated Big Sleep

Thrillers: 100 Must-reads

The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries

The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty

The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes

Hammett Unwritten

Holmes Entangled

The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

V Is for Venom

The Tattooed Girl

Raymond Chandler

Hardboiled

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

Crime and Puzzlement

Golden Age Whodunits

Howdunit: a Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club

The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter

Bone Voyage

Conversations With James Ellroy

Secrets of Inferno

The Book of Criminal Minds

The Crime Fiction Handbook

Deciphering the Lost Symbol

Hardboiled and High Heeled

Hard-boiled Sentimentality

The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie

Gumshoe America

The Blues Detective

Places for Dead Bodies

The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Hardboiled and High Heeled

The Crime Novel

Ink and Daggers