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Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago University Press, 1976. Effectively links detective fiction to other popular genres.

Cohen, Michael. Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. Elegant analysis of the detective form.

Haycraft, Howard. Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story. London: Peter Davies, 1942. First serious study of the genre: a classic.

Herbert, Rosemary, ed. The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Up-to-date coverage of most aspects of the genre.

Knight, Stephen. Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1980. Excellent in-depth study of major detective writers in their social contexts.

Most, Glenn and Stowe, William W., eds. The Poetics of Murder. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983. Anthology of some thought-provoking theoretical analyses.

Pederson, Jay P., ed. The St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers. Michigan and London: St. James Press, 1991. Very complete coverage of the genre.

Porter, Dennis. The Pursuit of Crime. Yale University Press, 1981. Thoughtful application of a range of literary theory to detective fiction.

Priestman, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Useful survey chapters on most aspects of the genre.

Priestman, Martin. Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1996. Handy brief history.

Symons, Julian. Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985. Classic early survey of the genre in its social context.

Winks, Robin W. and Corrigan, Maureen, eds. Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage. New York: Scribner's, 1998. Very full coverage of the genre.

Winks, Robin W., ed. Detective Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey and London: Prentice-Hall, 1980. Contains many indispensible essays, by authors such as Sayers, Chandler, and Auden.