Detective, Mystery, and Suspense Fiction

Indexes

Contento, William. Index to crime and mystery anthologies (Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1990) *RS-NAL 91-4119 Scope 1875-1990. Indexes 12,500+ stories by 3600 authors in over 1000 anthologies. A most valuable reference source, particularly for finding reprints of short stories.

Cook, Michael. Monthly murders: a checklist and chronological listing of fiction in the digest-sized mystery magazines in the United States and England. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982) *R-*D 82-1780 Covers 1941-1980. Entries include title, description, history, chronological listing of issue with contents. Unfortunately NYPL does not own many of these titles. Patrons seeking unavailable titles should consult the Information Desk, Room 315, for information on interlibrary loans.

Cook, Michael. Mystery, detective and espionage magazines (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983) *R-*D 84-332 A comprehensive work covering mystery, detective, espionage, true detective, fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction magazines. Includes foreign publications.

Mackler, Tasha. Murder by category: a subject guide to mystery fiction (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991) *RS-NAL 92-6331 Covers over 500 twentieth-century authors. Arrangement is alphabetical by 90 categories.

Menendez, Albert J. The subject is murder: a selective subject guide to mystery fiction, vols. 1-2 (New York, NY: Garland Pub., 1986-1990) *RS-NAL 86-3950 For serious collectors, booksellers, librarians and fans. Volume 1 covers 1930-1985. Volume 2 expands the scope to 1990. Both volumes now arrange 5900+ titles in 34 categories. Author and title indexes.

Mundell, E. H. The detective short story: a bibliography and index (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, 1974) JFF 94-1547 A valuable tool for locating short stories in collections, "a bibliography of detective short stories with first appearances of each story in book form."

Olderr, Steven. Mystery index: subjects, settings and sleuths of 10,000 titles (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1987) *RS-NAL 90-6 A very useful source for twentieth-century hardcover titles. Consists of main entry section, title index, subject and setting index, and character index.