Detective Stories
Detective Fiction and Non-Fiction: History and Trends Selective Books:
(For a complete listing of library holdings visit the subject "detective" in the library's catalog"

• Agatha Christie (books by this author, books about this author)
  Call #: PR6005.H66 Z553 2002

• Bloodhounds Of Heaven: The Detective In English Fiction From Godwin To Doyle
  Call #: PR868.D4 O9
• A companion to Poe studies
  Call #: PS2631 .C66 1996
• Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity**
• Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her
• Doctor and the Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**
• Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers  
• Murder ink : the mystery reader's companion
  Call #: PR830.D4 M8
• Mystery Fiction and Modern Life
• Nero Wolfe Of West Thirty-Fifth Street: The Life And Times Of America's Largest Private Detective
  Call #: PS3537.T73 Z58 1969
• Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing*
• Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction**
• The rivals of Sherlock Holmes; early detective stories
  Call #:PR1309.D4 G74
• Saint With A Gun : The Unlawful American Private Eye
  Call #:PS374.D4 R8
• Tough Guy Writers Of The Thirties
  Call #:PS379 .M26
• The rise of the detective in early nineteenth-century popular fiction
  Call #: PR868.D4 W67 2005
• Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle
• Western And Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction In America : From High Noon To Midnight
  Call #:PS374.W4 H36 1987
• Woman Detective: Gender & Genre
• Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection
  
    *Available through SWAN
  **Available through I-Share/Illinet

Internet Articles: and bibliographies

• Crime Culture’s aim is to “explore different critical approaches to the study of crime literature/film”
• Crime Month at the Lit. and Phil.: The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne’s special exhibit on crime writing
• Hard Boiled Detective Fiction
• Murder in the Stacks: Reader's Advisory for Mystery & Detective Fiction
• “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction” by Ronald Knox
• “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories” (originally published in the American Magazine Sept 1928 by S.S. Van Dine)

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