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Publishing History

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Subjects

Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, American, American fiction, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Large type books, Mystery and detective stories, Short stories, Translations into Russian, Children's fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Crime, Private investigators, fiction, Women authors, Popular literature, Crime in literature

Places

United States, English-speaking countries, California, New York, New York (State), England, New York (N.Y.), Los Angeles, Paris, Los Angeles (Calif.), Boston (Mass.), Toledo, Lofoten, Norway, Florida, San Francisco (Calif.), Massachusetts, Rome, London, Illinois

People

Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, John H. Watson, Father Time, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), Ethelred

Times

20th century, 19th century, Carnival, 21st century, December, 20e siècle, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1888

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Martin H. Greenberg, 90 books
Ellery Queen, 88 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 69 books
Otto Penzler, 67 books
Bill Pronzini, 49 books
Rex Stout, 44 books
Erle Stanley Gardner, 41 books
Edward D. Hoch, 37 books
Edward Gorman, 32 books
Eleanor Sullivan, 30 books
Raymond Chandler, 30 books
Isaac Asimov, 30 books
Arthur Conan Doyle, 28 books
Dashiell Hammett, 27 books
Agatha Christie, 26 books
Alfred Hitchcock, 26 books
Lawrence Block, 25 books
Cynthia Manson, 23 books
Robert J. Randisi, 22 books
John Dickson Carr, 22 books
Evan Hunter, 21 books
Cathleen Jordan, 19 books
Mary Roberts Rinehart, 18 books
Sara Paretsky, 18 books
Marcia Muller, 18 books