• 8 Special Collections (Memorial Library)
• 7 College Library
• 3 Information School Library
• 1 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 1 Law Library

• 245 Books

• 43 History
• 33 Private investigators
• 18 Women detectives
• 16 Police
• 16 Women
• 15 Spenser (Fictitious character)
• 11 College teachers
• 9 Families
• 9 Young women
• 7 Social life and customs
• 6 Gay men
• 6 Man-woman relationships
• 6 Murder
• 6 Puritans
• 6 Trials (Witchcraft)
• 6 Witchcraft
• 5 Adultery
• 5 Carlyle, Carlotta (Fictitious character)
• 5 College students
• 5 Cuddy, John Francis (Fictitious character)
• 5 Marriage
• 5 Mothers and daughters
• 5 Patients
• 5 Police chiefs
• 5 Women private investigators

• 23 Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
• 11 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
• 7 Lehane, Dennis
• 5 Barnes, Linda
• 5 Healy, J. F. (Jeremiah F.), 1948-2014
• 4 Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
• 3 Conant, Susan, 1946-
• 3 Craig, Philip R., 1933-2007
• 3 Dobson, Joanne, 1942-
• 3 Higgins, George V., 1939-1999
• 3 Hoffman, Alice
• 3 Kemelman, Harry
• 3 Langton, Jane, 1922-2018
• 2 Ablow, Keith R
• 2 Allen, Irene, 1960-
• 2 Cheng, Hung, 1937-
• 2 Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
• 2 Condé, Maryse
• 2 Cook, Robin, 1940-
• 2 Downing, Michael, 1958-2021
• 2 Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
• 2 Gerritsen, Tess
• 2 James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature
• 2 Karcher, Carolyn L., 1945-
• 2 Kemprecos, Paul

• 238 English
• 3 Chinese
• 2 Russian
• 1 French
• 1 German
• 1 Spanish

• 89 Boston
• 73 Boston (Mass.)
• 14 United States
• 12 Cambridge
• 10 Salem
• 8 Cape Cod
• 7 Cambridge (Mass.)
• 7 Martha's Vineyard
• 7 Salem (Mass.)
• 6 Cape Cod (Mass.)
• 6 Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
• 4 New York (State)
• 3 New England
• 3 New York
• 2 Amherst
• 2 China
• 2 Maine
• 2 Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
• 2 Nantucket Island
• 2 Nantucket Island (Mass.)
• 2 Washington (D.C.)
• 1 Alaska
• 1 Amherst (Mass.)
• 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

• 90 Mystery fiction
• 28 Domestic fiction
• 27 Historical fiction
• 18 Psychological fiction
• 11 Bildungsromans
• 11 Suspense fiction
• 9 Love stories
• 7 Humorous fiction
• 5 Novels
• 4 Detective and mystery fiction
• 3 Autobiographical fiction
• 3 Christian fiction
• 3 College stories
• 3 Fictional Work
• 3 Legal stories
• 3 Medical novels
• 3 Political fiction
• 3 Thrillers (Fiction)
• 2 Biographical fiction
• 2 Occult fiction
• 2 Paranormal fiction
• 2 Sea stories
• 2 War stories
• 1 Adaptations

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