Detective, Mystery, and Suspense Fiction

Bibliographies (Subject search: Detective and mystery stories--Bibliography)

Albert, Walter. Detective and mystery fiction: an international bibliography of secondary sources (Madison, IN: Brownstone Books, 1985) *RS-NAL 89-2939 Includes crime, detective, mystery, suspense, espionage, dime novels, pulps and crossovers in SF and westerns. Recommended for its foreign language coverage.

Crown crime compendium: the top 100 mystery novels of all time (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1994) JFD 95-16621 Selected by members of the Mystery Writers of America.

Hubin, Allen J. Crime fiction II: a comprehensive bibliography, 1749-1990 2 vols. (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1994) *RS-NAL 96-10551 The most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography in the field. This edition lists over 80,000 titles. Title index, settings index and much more.

Johnson, Timothy. Crime fiction criticism: an annotated bibliography (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1981) *RS-NAL 86-861 A comprehensive secondary bibliography with over 2000 entries covering 1800 individual titles. Includes monographs, periodical and newspaper articles, and dissertations. Also includes foreign language material. Index of critics.

Lachman, Martin. A reader's guide to the American novel of detection (New York, NY: G. K. Hall, 1993) JFE 93-6005 First of a series of monographs which will focus on several aspects of the mystery genre, e.g., police procedurals, women detectives, etc. Future titles may be found in CATNYP by searching the series' title: Reader's guides to mystery novels.

Loder, John. Australian crime fiction: a bibliography 1857-1993. (Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: D. W. Thorpe, 1994) JFE 96-531 Covers over 2600 novels by 500 authors. Includes: title index, jacket artists, designers and photographers index, investigators and criminals index. Entries include brief biography, bibliography and some plot description.

Oleksiw, Susan. A reader's guide to the classic British mystery (Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1988) *R-*GBO 88-5899 Reviews 121 authors. Includes chapters and lists on characters and creators, creators and characters, period, location and setting indexes. All strictly British, of course.

Queen, Ellery. Queen's quorum: a history of the detective-crime short story as revealed in the 106 most important books published in the field since 1845 (New York, NY: Biblio and Tannen, 1969) JFE 85-1595 A reprint of the 1951 edition with supplements through 1967. One of the classic bibliographies in the field.

Skene, Melvin. Crime, detective, espionage, and thriller fiction and film: a comprehensive bibliography of critical writing through 1979 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980) JFE 97-4159 An international and interdisciplinary source of works on the history and development of the genre. Over 1600 entries from 25 countries in 18 languages.

Smith, Myron J. Cloak and dagger fiction: an annotated guide to spy thrillers, 3rd ed. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995) *RS-NAL 95-6072 An excellent bibliography of one of the most popular subgenres. The 5800+ entries include paperback titles which were not included in earlier editions. Appendices include pseudonyms, characters in series, and a guide to intelligence/terrorist organizations.