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The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By John Dickson Carr

Mortal consequences

By Julian Symons

Agatha Christie

By Gillian Gill

Talking about detective fiction

By P. D. James

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

By Vincent Starrett

Murder for pleasure

By Howard Haycraft

Yesterday's Faces

By Robert Sampson

The life and crimes of Agatha Christie

By Charles Osborne

Cover stories

By Michael Denning

A Sherlock Holmes Handbook

By Christopher Redmond

Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives

By Christiana Gregoriou

The art of the mystery story

By Howard Haycraft

TV cops

By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

The Sookie Stackhouse companion

By Charlaine Harris

The beautiful cigar girl

By Daniel Stashower

My Dear Holmes

By Gavin Brend

Reflecting on Miss Marple

By Marion Shaw,Sabine Vanacker

Twentieth-century crime fiction

By Gill Plain

American Flaneur

By James Werner

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction

By Casey Cothran,Mercy Cannon

Translating National Allegories

By Alistair Rolls,John West-Sooby,Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan

Crime Fiction and the Law

By Maria Aristodemou,Fiona Macmillan,Patricia Tuitt

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd?

By Pierre Bayard

The thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969

By Aaron Kelly