Mystery & Crime Crit
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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

Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories

Dorothy L. Sayers: the Complete Stories

The Killer Across the Table

The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
More Mystery & Crime Crit Books

Hardboiled

Hard-boiled Sentimentality

Places for Dead Bodies

Talking About Detective Fiction

Hardboiled and High Heeled

Hardboiled and High Heeled

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

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

Fifty Best Mysteries

The Whole Art of Detection

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

The Killer Book of Serial Killers

The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Sherlock Holmes Book

The Education of a Coroner

Rogues' Gallery

Vampire Stories

Golden Age Detective Stories

Golden Age Whodunits

His Last Bow

Sherlock Holmes

Holmes Entangled

The Book of Criminal Minds

The Big Four

The Edinburgh Mystery

Raymond Chandler

Detective Mysteries Short Stories