(Ed) John BALL : The Mystery Story (1976 Publishers Inc, California) (1978 Penguin)
(Ed) Earl F BARGAINNIER : Ten Women of Mystery (1981 Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio)
Melvyn BARNES : Best Detective Fiction : A Guide from Godwin to the Present
(1975 Clive Bingley) (1975 Linnet Books, Hamden, Connecticut)
Murder in Print : A Guide to Two Centuries of Crime Fiction
(1986 Barn Owl Books, London)
Jack BARZUN & Wendell Hertig TAYLOR : A Catalogue of Crime (1971 Harper & Row, NY)
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John C CARR : The Craft of Crime - Conversations with Crime Writers (1983 Houghton Mifflin)
Diana COOPER-CLARK : Designs of Darkness - Interviews with Detective Novelists
(1983 Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio)
Patricia CRAIG & Mary CADOGAN : The Lady investigates - Women Detectives
and Spies in Fiction (1982 St Martin's Press, NY)
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George N DOVE : The Police Procedural (1982 Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio)
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(Ed) Lucy FREEMAN : The Murder Mystique - Crime Writers on Their Art (1982 Ungar, NY)
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David GEHERIN : Sons of Sam Spade - The Private Eye Novel in the 70s
(1980 Ungar, NY)
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(Ed) Howard HAYCRAFT : The Art of the Mystery Story - A Collection of Critical Essays
(1946 Simon & Schuster)
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H R F KEATING : Murder Must Appetize (1975 Lemon Tree Press) (1981 Mysterious Press NY)
(Ed) Crime Writers : Reflections on Crime Fiction (1978 BBC, London)
(Ed) Whodunit ? : A Guide to Crime, Suspense and Spy Fiction
(1982 Windward(1982 Van Nostrand NY)
Stephen KNIGHT : Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (1980 Macmillan) (1980 Indiana UP)
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Tage LA COUR & Harold MOGENSEN : The Murder Book - An Illustrated History
of the Detective Story (1971 Allen & Unwin) (1971 Herder, NY)
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Jessica MANN : Deadlier Than the Male - An Investigation into Feminine Crime Writing
(1981 David & Charles) (1981 Macmillan NY)
A E MURCH : The Development of the Detective Novel (1958 Peter Owen)
(1958 Philosophical Library, NY)
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(Ed) Frances M NEVINS Jnr : The Mystery Writer's Art (1970 Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio)
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Ian OUSBY : Bloodhounds to Heaven - The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle
(1976 Harvard UP)
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Leroy PANEK : Watteau's Shepherds - The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940
(1979 Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio)
(Ed) Otto PENZLER : The Great Detectives (1978 Little Brown, Boston)
(Ed) Detectionary : A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Detective
and Mystery Fiction (1977 Overlook Press NY) - with Chris Steinbrunner & Marvin Lachman
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Eric QUAYLE : The Collector's Book of Detective Fiction (1972 Sudio Vista)
Ellery QUEEN : Queen's Quorum - A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story
(1951 Little Brown) (1953 Gollancz)
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(Ed) John M REILLY : 20thC Crime & Mystery Writers (1980 St Martin's Press, NY)
(1980 Macmillan)
Erik ROUTLEY : The Puritan pleasures of the Detective Story (1972 Gollancz)

Sutherland SCOTT : Blood in Their Ink - The March of the Modern Mystery Novel
(1953 Stanley Paul)
(Ed) Chris STEINBRUNNER & Otto PENZLER : Encyclopaedia of Mystery & Detection
(1976 McGraw-Hill, NY) (1976 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
R F STEWART : ...... And Always a Detective - Chapters on the History of Detective Fiction
(1980 David & Charles)
Julian SYMONS : Bloody Murder - from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel (1972 Faber)
(1972 Harper as "Mortal Consequences")
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Colin WATSON : Snobbery with Violence - Crime Stories and Their Audience
(1971 Eyre & Spottiswoode) (1971 St Martin's NY)
(Ed) Robin W WINKS : Detective Fiction - A Collection of Critical Essays (1980 Prentice-Hall)
(Ed) Dilys WINN : Murder Ink - The Mystery Reader's Companion (1977 Workman, NY)
(1978 Westbridge)
(Ed) Murderess Ink - The Better Half of the Mystery (1979 Workman NY)

Collections of Crime Fiction

The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington
Based on the original collection of John Carter

Metropolitan Toronto Central Library, Toronto
Arthur Baillie's collection plus an extensive archive of Sherlock Holmes

Occidental College, Los Angeles
The E. T. Guymon collection

University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Sadleir collection with the finest of Yellowbacks

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
c5000 books

University of Texas, Austin
c8000 books

[There are many private collections in the USA]