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 | "The Hardboiled Explicator: A Guide To The Study of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett & Ross Macdonald" [1985] by Robert E. Skinner Scarecrow Press pb [9/2002] for $24.95 Scarecrow Press pb [2/85] out of print/used BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] Pages BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Ross Macdonald [1915-83] Page |
 | "The Dime Detectives" [1988] by Ron Goulart Mysterious Press 8¾x6 hardcover [11/88] out of print/many used |
 | "Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction & The Cold War" [1996] by Woody Haut Serpents Tail 8x5½ pb [4/96] for $12.79 |
 | "The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction" [1996] Edited by Maxim Jakubowski Carroll & Graf 11¼x4¾ pb [8/96] for $9.56 |
 | "Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks & The Masters of Noir" [1997] by Geoffrey O'Brien DaCapo Press 9x6 pb [4/97] for $13.56 |
 | "The Big Book of Noir" [1998] Edited by Ed Gorman, Lee Server & Martin H. Greenberg Carroll & Graf 10x7¼ pb [10/98] out of print/used |
 | "Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction" [1999] by Woody Haut Serpents Tail 8½x5 pb [4/99] for $13.59 |
 | "Detective Agency: Women Rewriting The Hard-Boiled Tradition" [1999] by Priscilla L. Walton & Manina Jones Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [5/99] for $18.95 Univ CA Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/99] out of print/used |
 | "Sins of The City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" [1999] by Jim Heimann Chronicle Books 10x7½ pb [7/99] for $13.27 |
 | "America Noir: Underground Writers & Filmmakers of The Postwar Era" [2000] by David Cochran Smithsonian Inst. Press 9x6½ hardcover [5/2000] for $22.36 |
 | "Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers & Pulp Magazines" [2000] by Erin A. Smith Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/2000] for $15.96 |
 | "Adventure House Guide To The Pulps: A Checklist of The Pulp Magazine Era" [2000] by John Gunnison, John Locke & Doug Ellis Adventure House pb [7/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Gumshoe America: Hard Boiled Crime Fiction & The Rise & Fall of New Deal Liberalism" [2000] by Sean McCann Duke Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [11/2000] for $24.95 Duke Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2000] for $89.95 |
 | "The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action" [2001] Edited by Maxim Jakubowski Carroll & Graf 11¼x4¾ pb [12/2001] for $9.56 |
 | "Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction" [2002] by Thomas Campbell
Running Press 3½x3 miniature [3/2002] for $4.95 |
 | "Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism" [2002] by Paula Rabinowitz Columbia Univ Press 9x6.3 pb [7/2002] for $18.50 Columbia Univ Press hardcover [7/2002] for $49.50 |
 | "Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald - A Literary Reference" [2002] Edited by Matthew Bruccoli & Richard Layman Carroll & Graf 10x7 pb [7/2002] for $15.40 BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] Pages BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Ross Macdonald [1915-83] Page |
 | "Heartbreak and Vine" [2003] by Woody Haut Serpent's Tail 8½x5¼ pb [4/2003] for $11.90 |
 | "Scene of the Crime: Photographs From The L.A.P.D. Archive" [2004] Essay by Tim B. Wride; Foreword by L.A.P.D. Chief William J. Bratton, Introduction by James Ellroy Harry N. Abrams 13½x8.3 hardcover [10/2004] for $23.80 |
 | "Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965" [2005] Selected & Introduction by Katherine V. Forrest Cleis Press pb [5/2005] for $14.70 |
 | "L.A. Noir: The City As Character" [2005] by Alain Silver & James Ursini Santa Monica Press 8½x11 pb [10/2005] for $14.56 |
 | "Hard-Boiled Masculinities" [2005] by Christopher Breu A scholarly examination of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during the unsettled times after World War I, shifting from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats & mustaches to the portrayal of much more overtly violent & muscular men, moving back and forth across the divide between high and low culture in American society. Author cites examples from the works of Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, and William Faulkner, as well as many lesser-known writers of the hypermasculine 'tough-guy' pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Univ MN Press 9x6 pb [12/2005] for $22.50 Univ MN Press hardcover [12/2005] for $60.00 |
 | "Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories" [2008] by Leonard Cassuto Columbia Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2008] for $27.50 Columbia Univ Press hardcover [10/2008] for $79.50 |
 | "Dime Detective Companion" [rev 2011] by James L. Traylor featuring articles by Monte Herridge, Marvin Lachman & Will Murray, and the 1936 multi-author short story "The Tongueless Men" CreateSpace 9x6 pb [3/2011] for $24.95 |
Books About Mystery Fiction
books on writing mystery fiction at Amazon
 | "Detecting Women: Gender and The Hollywood Detective Film" [2011] by Philippa Gates S.U.N.Y. Press 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $29.95 S.U.N.Y. Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2011] for $90.00 |
 | "Talking About Detective Fiction" [2009] by P.D. James Penguin U.K. 8½x5¼ pb [10/2009] out of print/used Knopf 7½x4¾ hardcover [12/2009] for $14.66 |
 | "Detecting Men: Masculinity and The Hollywood Detective Film" [2006] by Philippa Gates SUNY Press 8¾x6 pb [7/2006] for $30.95 SUNY Press 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2006] for $89.50 |
 | "Booze and The Private Eye: Alcohol In The Hard-Boiled Novel" [2004] by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $35.00 |
 | "The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing The Modern Whodunit" [2004] by William G. Tapply Poisoned Pen Press 8½x5½ pb [5/2004] for $11.53 |
 | "How To Write A Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide From Inspiration To Finished Manuscript" [2004] by James N. Frey St. Martin 8½x5¾ hardcover [2/2004] for $15.61 |
 | "Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of The 1940s & 1950s" [2003] by Jeffrey Marks Delphi Books 9½x6 hardcover [9/2003] for $21.95 |
 | "The Classic Era of Crime Fiction" [2002] by Peter Haining Chicago Review Press 11¾x9 pb [9/2002] for $35.00 |
 | "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction" [2002] by Mike Ashley Carroll & Graf 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2002] for $9.71 |
 | "They Died In Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated & Forgotten Mystery Novels" [2002] Edited by Jim Huang Crum Creek Press 8x5 pb [4/2002] for $10.40 |
 | "Writing Mysteries: A Handbook By The Mystery Writers of America" [1976; 2nd edition 2002] Edited by Sue Grafton Writers Digest 9x6 pb [4/2002] for $11.04 M.W.A. hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used |
 | "The History of Mystery" [2001] by Max Allan Collins Collectors Press 12¼x11¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $38.25 |
 | "100 Favorite Mysteries of The Century" [2000] Edited by Jim Huang Crum Creek Press pb[12/2000] for $9.60 |
 | "The Oxford Companion To Crime & Mystery Writing" [1999] Edited by Rosemary Herbert Oxford Univ Press 9½x6¾ hardcover [12/99] out of print/used |
 | "The Encyclopedia of Murder & Mystery" [1999] by Bruce F. Murphy Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x7½ pb [2/2002] for $17.47 Palgrave Macmillan 9¾x8 hardcover [12/99] out of print/used |
 | "You Can Write A Mystery" [1999] by Gillian Roberts Writers Digest Books 9x6 pb [8/99] for $10.39 |
 | "Killer Books: A Reader's Guide To Exploring The Popular World of Mystery & Suspense" [1998] by Jean Swanson & Dean James Berkley Trade 9¼x6 pb [4/98] out of print/many used |
 | "Detecting Men: A Readers Guide & Checklist For Mystery Series Written By Men" [1997] by Willetta L. Heising Purple Moon Press 11x8½ pb [3/98] out of print/many used 'Pocket Guide' edition [3/97] out of print/used |
 | "The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction" [1996] by Stephen F. Soitos Univ MA Press 9½x6 pb [2/96] for $21.95 Univ MA Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used |
 | "Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense Fiction" [1995] Edited by Paula L. Woods Main Street Books 8¼x5½ pb [11/96] out of print/used Doubleday 9x8¼ hardcover [11/95] out of print/used |
 | "Detecting Women: A Readers Guide & Checklist For Mystery Series Written by Women" [orig 1995; 3rd edition 1999] by Willetta L. Heising Purple Moon Press pb [12/99] out of print/used Purple Moon Press 11&fracx8¾ hardcover [12/99] out of print/used 'Pocket Guide' edition [10/98] out of print/used |
 | "Encyclopedia Mysteriosa: A Comprehensive Guide To The Art of Detection In Print, Film, Radio & Television" [1994] by William L. DeAndrea The first such volume since 1975; reviewers complain of missing authors & characters & TV shows, but no review faults the book's accuracy. Macmillan 9½x5½ pb [5/97] out of print/used John Wiley & Sons 9¾x8 hardcover [9/94] out of print/many used |
 | "Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Criticism, Psychoanalysis" [1991] by Mary Ann Doane Routledge 9x6 pb [8/91] for $20.99 Routledge hardcover [8/91] out of print/used |
 | "The Woman Detective: Gender & Genre" [1988] by Kathleen Gregory Klein Univ IL Press 9x6 pb [2/95] for $18.95 Univ IL Press hardcover [1988] out of stock/used |
 | "Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books" [1987] by H.R.F. Keating Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/97] for $8.96 Carroll & Graf hardcover [11/87] out of print/used |
"Sons of Sam Spade: The Private-Eye Novel In The Seventies" [1980]
by David Geherin
Continuum pb [1/83] out of print/used
Ungar hardcover [3/80] out of print/used
"The Complete Detective: Being The Life and Strange & Exciting Cases
of Raymond Schindler, Master Detective" [1950]
by Rupert Hughes
recommended by Erle Stanley Gardner
Sheridan House hardcover [1/1950] out of print/used
Technical Books
 | "Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation,  First U.K. Edition" [2011] by William Tilstone Routledge/Auerbach hardcover [DUE Dec 2010, bumped till later] >> sign up for notification |
 | "Forensics For Dummies" [2004] by Douglas P. Lyle, MD
nominated for an Edgar Award For Dummies 9¼x7¼ pb [4/2004] for $13.59 |
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"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Forensics: Discover How Crimes Are Solved Through Science & Detection" [2003] by Alan Axelrod & Guy Antinozzi Alpha Books 2nd edition 9x7¼ pb [9/2007] out of print/used |
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"The Complete Idiot's Guide To Criminal Investigation" [2002] by Alan Axelrod & Guy Antinozzi Alpha Books 9x7¼ pb [7/2002] out of print/used |
 | "Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide For Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists & Attorneys" [2000] by John Harris Trestrail III Humana Press 2nd edition 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $44.95 Humana Press 2nd edition 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $89.95 Humana Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation" textbook [orig 1949] by Barry A.J. Fisher Routledge/Auerbach 8th edition hardcover [DUE Feb 2012] for $93.30 
CRC Press 7th edition hardcover [9/2003] for $73.16 "Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, Seventh Edition, Interactive Training CD-ROM" CRC Press CD-ROM [6/2004] for $98.03 |
 | "Homicide Investigation: Practical Information For Coroners, Police Officers & Other Investigators" [orig 1944] by Dr. Lemoyne Snyder recommended often by Erle Stanley Gardner Charles C. Thomas 3rd edition pb [9/77] for $52.95 Charles C. Thomas 3rd edition hardcover [9/77] out of print/used |
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