Mystery & Crime Crit
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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
The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
The Golden Ball and Other Stories
Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories
Dorothy L. Sayers: the Complete Stories
More Mystery & Crime Crit Books
The Killer Across the Table
The New York Trilogy
The Poisoner's Handbook
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
Hardboiled
Hard-boiled Sentimentality
The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
Places for Dead Bodies
Talking About Detective Fiction
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery
The Tattooed Girl
Hardboiled and High Heeled
Hardboiled and High Heeled
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains
The Great Detective
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
The Best American Noir of the Century
The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006
The Complete Christie
Fifty Best Mysteries
The Whole Art of Detection
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
The Annotated Big Sleep
Hard-boiled Masculinities
Murder Most Modern
Gumshoe America
The Blues Detective
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories