1909–1959 . London: Hamish Hamilton. A new selection of letters and papers, edited by Chandler biographer Tom Hiney and the late Frank MacShane.
CHAPMAN, DAVID IAN. R. Austin Freeman, A Bibliography . Shelbourne, Ontario, Canada: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. An eighty-four-page listing of Freeman's books, magazine appearances, etc.
COLLINS, WILKIE. The Letters of Wilkie Collins, Volume 1: 1838–1865, Volume 2: 1866–1889 . New York: St. Martin's. A two-volume collection of letters by the author of The Moonstone and other early mysteries.
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Quotable Sherlock Holmes . New York: Mysterious Press. Hundreds of memorable quotes from all the Holmes novels and short stories, assembled by Gerard Van Der Leun.
DUBOSE, MARTHA HAILEY. Women of Mystery: The Lives and Crimes of Notable Women Authors of Mystery Fiction. New York: St. Martin's. Biographies and minibiographies of eighteen leading mystery writers, with others mentioned briefly.
DUNCAN, PAUL. The Pocket Essential Film Noir . Harpenden, England: Pocket Essentials. A ninety-six-page paperback examining seven films in depth and listing hundreds more.
———. The Pocket Essential Noir Fiction. Harpenden, England: Pocket Essentials. A ninety-six-page paperback examining nineteen writers in depth and mentioning several others.
GOTTLIEB, SIDNEY, ed. Hitchcock Annual, 2000–2001. New London, NH: Hitchcock Annual Corporation. Eight new essays, an interview and reviews concerning Alfred Hitchcock's films, television series, and books pertaining to them.
HAUSLADEN, GARY. Places for Dead Bodies . Austin: University of Texas Press. Locales used by more than thirty leading mystery writers.
HAZZARD, SHIRLEY. Greene on Capri . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. A memoir of Graham Greene's frequent visits to Capri and the people he knew there.
KING, STEPHEN. On Writing: A Memoir of a Craft . New York: Scribner. An account of King's early life, the writing of his books, his views of other writers, and his near-fatal accident.
———. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing . New York: Book of the Month Club. Twenty essays, book introductions, interviews, and short stories on writing, including a long excerpt on horror fiction from Danse Macabre . Introduction by Peter Straub.
KRAMER, JOHN E. Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow Press. A bibliography of 483 mystery novels, 1910–1998, with college or university settings.
LACHMAN, MARVIN. The American Regional Mystery . Minneapolis & San Francisco: Crossover Press. A detailed survey of regional mysteries, with chapters covering each state as well as major cities and vacation areas.
LANDRUM, LARRY. American Mystery and Detective Novels: A Reference Guide . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. A history of the genre and its various subgenres, with sections on major authors and reference works.
MERRILL, HUGH. The Red Hot Typewriter: The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald . New York: St. Martin's. A biography of the mystery writer, creator of Travis McGee.
NICHOLS, VICTORIA & SUSAN THOMPSON. Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder . Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow Press. An expanded survey of series characters created by women mystery authors, 1867–1997.
NICKERSON, CATHERINE ROSS. The Web of Inequity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women . Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. A study of early women mystery writers in this country.
PASCAL, JANET. Arthur Conan Doyle . New York: Oxford University Press. A new biography of Sherlock Holmes's creator.
PENZLER, OTTO. Cornell Woolrich, Part II (William Irish & George Hopley). New York: The Mysterious Bookshop. A descriptive bibliography and price guide to first editions. One of a series of booklets for collectors.
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