• 89 Memorial Library
• 5 Law Library
• 2 College Library
• 1 ILL Library

• 34 Private investigators
• 16 Spenser (Fictitious character)
• 15 Women detectives
• 11 Police
• 5 Carlyle, Carlotta (Fictitious character)
• 5 Police chiefs
• 4 College teachers
• 4 Cuddy, John Francis (Fictitious character)
• 4 Lawyers
• 4 Stone, Jesse (Fictitious character)
• 4 Women private investigators
• 3 Coyne, Brady (Fictitious character)
• 3 Gennaro, Angela (Fictitious character)
• 3 Investigation
• 3 Jackson, Jeff (Fictitious character)
• 3 Kelly, Homer (Fictitious character)
• 3 Kenzie, Patrick (Fictitious character)
• 2 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
• 2 Art thefts
• 2 Drowning victims
• 2 Government investigators
• 2 Greek Americans
• 2 Kelling, Sarah (Fictitious character)
• 2 Missing persons
• 2 Murder

• 24 Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
• 5 Barnes, Linda
• 5 Lehane, Dennis
• 4 Healy, J. F. (Jeremiah F.), 1948-2014
• 3 Craig, Philip R., 1933-2007
• 3 Dobson, Joanne, 1942-
• 3 Langton, Jane, 1922-2018
• 3 Tapply, William G
• 2 Allen, Irene, 1960-
• 2 Kemelman, Harry
• 2 Kemprecos, Paul
• 2 MacLeod, Charlotte
• 2 Maclean, Anna
• 1 Ablow, Keith R
• 1 Arsenault, Emily
• 1 Blake, Michelle
• 1 Clark, Mary Higgins
• 1 Coburn, Andrew
• 1 Conant, Susan, 1946-
• 1 Cruikshank, Jeffrey L
• 1 Daniel, David, 1945-
• 1 Dobbyn, John F
• 1 Elkins, Aaron J
• 1 Flood, John, 1962-
• 1 Higgins, George V., 1939-1999

• 96 English

• 52 Boston
• 46 Boston (Mass.)
• 5 Cambridge
• 5 Cape Cod
• 4 Cambridge (Mass.)
• 4 Cape Cod (Mass.)
• 4 Martha's Vineyard
• 4 Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
• 1 Enfield
• 1 Enfield (Mass.)
• 1 Fall River
• 1 Italy
• 1 Lowell
• 1 Lowell (Mass.)
• 1 Maine
• 1 Nantucket Island
• 1 Nantucket Island (Mass.)
• 1 New York
• 1 New York (State)
• 1 Revere
• 1 Revere (Mass.)
• 1 Venice
• 1 Venice (Italy)
• 1 Washington (D.C.)

• 96 Fiction
• 6 Legal stories
• 4 Psychological fiction
• 2 Detective and mystery fiction
• 2 Historical fiction
• 2 Suspense fiction
• 1 Adventure fiction
• 1 Christian fiction
• 1 College stories
• 1 Detective and mystery stories
• 1 Detective and mystery stories, American
• 1 Jewish fiction
• 1 Legal fiction (Literature)
• 1 Mystery
• 1 Suspense fiction, American

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