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Macavity Award – Nonfiction
The Real Lolita
Sarah Weinman
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
Martin Edwards
Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Margaret Kinsman
The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story
Martin Edwards
Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey edited
Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War[2]
Daniel Stashower
Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels edited
John Connolly and Declan Burke
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
Charlaine Harris
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
John Curran
Talking About Detective Fiction
P. D. James
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study
Frankie Y. Bailey
The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians edited
Roger Sobin
Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers edited
Jim Huang and Austin Lugar
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak
Forensics for Dummies
D. P. Lyle, MD
Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
Gary Warren Niebuhr
They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited
Jim Huang
Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional
G. Miki Hayden
The American Regional Mystery
Marvin Lachman
Killer Books
Jean Swanson & Dean James
Deadly Women
Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr
Detecting Women 2
Willetta Heising
Detecting Women
Willetta Heising
By a Woman’s Hand
Dean James & Jean Swanson
The Fine Art of Murder edited
Ed Gorman
Doubleday Crime Club Compendium
Ellen Nehr
Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman & Ernie Bulow
Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries
Gillian Gill
The Bedside Companion to Crime
H. R. F. Keating
Silk Stalkings
Victoria Nichols & Susan Thompson
Son of Gun in Cheek
Bill Pronzini
1001 Midnights
Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini
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