Detective Fiction: The Theory
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The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory
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Glenn W. Most
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How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
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Lee Child
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Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: 0 (Critical Survey
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Carl Rollyson
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Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers
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Marta McDowell
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What About Murder? (1981-1991): A Guide to Books about Mystery and Detective Fiction
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Jon L. Breen
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Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction (Genreflecting Advisory Series) 4.25 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery
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Michael L. Cook
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The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction 4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle liked it 3.00 avg rating β 9 ratings
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
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Susan Rowland
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Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes?: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society
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Robert S. Paul
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 20. 
The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle's Detective Fiction
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Andrew Glazzard
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings 21. 
Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880β1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Satoru SaitΕ
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Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture
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Sari Kawana
3.90 avg rating β 31 ratings 23. 
The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World
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Mary Evans
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Guilty But Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction
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Samantha Walton
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Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story: The Haunted Text
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Michael Cook
3.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 26. 
Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery Tale
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Antoine DechΓͺne
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Art in Crime Writing: Essays on Detective Fiction
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Bernard Benstock
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Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
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Mary Evans
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British Detective Fiction 1891β1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes
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Clare Clarke
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Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers
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Jem Bloomfield
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The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction 3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920
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Kate Morrison
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The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks
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Lucy Andrew
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction
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Ray B. Browne
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Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction
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Lisa Hopkins
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Detection and Its Designs: Narrative and Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
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Peter Thoms
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A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
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Sarah J. Link
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Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State
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Andrew Pepper
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Latin American Detectives against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
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Fabricio Tocco
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Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896β1949)
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Yan Wei
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Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
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Bruce Shaw
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The Figure on the Carpet: Detective Fiction and Literature
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Martin Priestman
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Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction
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Alistair Rolls
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The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts
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Caroline Blyth
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Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
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Julian Symons
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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
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Pamela Bedore
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Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America: From High Noon to Midnight 3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction
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John Walton
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Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World
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Nels Pearson
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Blood on the Table: Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction
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Jean Anderson
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings