• 8 Private investigators
• 6 Murder
• 5 Police
• 4 Gay men
• 3 Wolfe, Nero (Fictitious character)
• 2 Actresses
• 2 African American detectives
• 2 African American police
• 2 Crimes against
• 2 Ex-convicts
• 2 Investigation
• 2 Missing persons
• 2 Serial murderers
• 2 Strachey, Donald (Fictitious character)
• 2 Women
• 1 Adultery
• 1 African Americans
• 1 Amnesia
• 1 Betrayal
• 1 Book collectors
• 1 Businessmen
• 1 Country life
• 1 Criminal investigation
• 1 Detective and mystery stories
• 1 Detective and mystery stories, American

• 4 James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature
• 3 Stout, Rex, 1886-1975
• 2 Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984
• 2 Stevenson, Richard, 1938-
• 1 Bloomsbury (Firm)
• 1 Caspary, Vera, 1899-1987
• 1 Clays Ltd.
• 1 Cunningham, E. V., 1914-2003
• 1 DeMille, Nelson
• 1 Eustis, Helen
• 1 Green, George Dawes
• 1 Hallberg, Garth Risk
• 1 Hoffman, Cara
• 1 Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay, 1889-1955
• 1 Hughes, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Belle), 1904-1993
• 1 Hynes, Charles J
• 1 Karpov, Aleksandr, 1971-2002
• 1 Lennon, J. Robert, 1970-
• 1 Lysanova, I︠U︡lii︠a︡
• 1 Miller, Raymond
• 1 Mitchell, Maggie
• 1 Morrow, Bradford, 1951-
• 1 Mosley, Walter
• 1 Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
• 1 Packer, Vin, 1927-2022

• 24 English
• 3 Russian

• 18 New York
• 8 New York (N.Y.)
• 3 Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• 3 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
• 2 Albany
• 2 Albany (N.Y.)
• 2 Los Angeles (Calif.)
• 1 Hamptons
• 1 Ireland
• 1 Westchester
• 1 Westchester (N.Y.)

• 27 Fiction
• 15 Mystery fiction
• 5 Thrillers (Fiction)
• 3 Historical fiction
• 3 Novels
• 3 Suspense fiction
• 2 Detective and mystery stories
• 2 Psychological fiction
• 1 Black humor
• 1 Domestic fiction
• 1 Gay fiction
• 1 Movie novels
• 1 Mystery and detective fiction
• 1 Noir fiction
• 1 Paperbacks (Publishing)
• 1 Political fiction
• 1 Romance fiction

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