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Creatures of darkness : Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, and film noir / Gene D. Phillips. by Phillips, Gene D.

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A counter-history of crime fiction : supernatural, Gothic, sensational / Maurizio Ascari. by Ascari, Maurizio

Anxiety and evil in the writings of Patricia Highsmith Fiona Peters. by Peters, Fiona

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Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin mysteries / Richard Kopley. by Kopley, Richard

The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe. by Poe, Edgar Allan

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War noir : Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled detective as veteran in American fiction / Sarah Trott. by Trott, Sarah, Trott, Sarah

Being cool the work of Elmore Leonard / Charles J. Rzepka. by Rzepka, Charles J.

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Dreams for dead bodies : blackness, labor, and the corpus of American detective fiction / Miriam Michelle Robinson. by Robinson, Michelle, 1979-

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That affair next door and, Lost man's lane / Anna Katharine Green ; introduction by Catherine Ross Nickerson. by Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935

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The dead letter, & The figure eight Metta Fuller Victor. by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885

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