• 280 Memorial Library
• 43 College Library
• 34 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 17 Law Library
• 17 MERIT Library
• 6 Information School Library
• 4 Special Collections (Memorial Library)
• 3 Verona Shelving Facility
• 2 Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Library
• 1 ILL Library

• 388 Books
• 1 Manuscripts, Theses
• 1 Videos, Slides, Films

• 1 DVDs

• 52 Private investigators
• 38 Police
• 27 Gay men
• 21 Mexican Americans
• 20 Murder
• 18 African American men
• 17 Crimes against
• 17 Lesbians
• 14 Bosch, Harry
• 14 Investigation
• 13 Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)
• 13 Friendship
• 12 African American women
• 12 Families
• 11 History
• 11 Missing persons
• 11 Motion picture industry
• 10 African Americans
• 9 Journalists
• 9 Policewomen
• 9 Psychologists
• 9 Race relations
• 9 Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character)
• 8 Detective and mystery stories, American
• 8 Female friendship

• 19 Connelly, Michael, 1956-
• 16 Mosley, Walter
• 14 Kellerman, Jonathan
• 9 Crais, Robert
• 7 James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature
• 7 Nava, Michael
• 6 Block, Francesca Lia
• 6 Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959
• 6 Cunningham, E. V., 1914-2003
• 6 Hamilton, Denise
• 5 Butler, Octavia E
• 5 Ellis, Bret Easton
• 5 Ellroy, James, 1948-
• 5 Revoyr, Nina, 1969-
• 5 Wilson, John Morgan, 1945-
• 3 Clark, Marcia
• 3 Haywood, Gar Anthony
• 3 Ide, Joe
• 3 Politi, Leo, 1908-1996
• 3 Rechy, John
• 3 Schine, Cathleen
• 3 Soto, Gary
• 2 Babitz, Eve
• 2 Bishop, Paul
• 2 Boyle, T. Coraghessan

• 389 English
• 1 Russian

• 168 California
• 157 Los Angeles
• 15 United States
• 9 New York (N.Y.)
• 6 New York (State)
• 5 Southern States
• 4 Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• 4 New York
• 4 Texas
• 3 Las Vegas (Nev.)
• 2 England
• 2 Louisiana
• 2 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
• 2 Mexico
• 1 Alaska
• 1 Angel Island (Calif.)
• 1 Australia
• 1 Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• 1 Beverly Hills (Calif.)
• 1 Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 China
• 1 Copenhagen (Denmark)

• 135 Mystery fiction
• 39 Psychological fiction
• 29 Detective and mystery fiction
• 28 Juvenile fiction
• 25 Historical fiction
• 24 Love stories
• 23 Domestic fiction
• 20 Novels
• 17 Bildungsromans
• 16 Legal stories
• 14 Suspense fiction
• 13 Thrillers (Fiction)
• 12 Science fiction
• 10 Young adult fiction
• 9 Humorous fiction
• 8 Romance fiction
• 8 Short stories
• 7 Noir fiction
• 6 Detective and mystery stories
• 6 Fantasy fiction
• 5 Adventure fiction
• 5 Gay fiction
• 5 Satirical literature
• 4 Autobiographical fiction

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