• 45 Memorial Library
• 7 College Library
• 6 Law Library
• 3 MERIT Library
• 2 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 1 Verona Shelving Facility

• 48 Private investigators
• 44 Murder
• 42 Investigation
• 22 Police
• 16 Women private investigators
• 12 Missing persons
• 11 Gay men
• 10 Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character)
• 10 Policewomen
• 10 Women detectives
• 9 Bosch, Harry
• 8 Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
• 8 Crimes against
• 8 Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)
• 7 Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character)
• 7 Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)
• 6 Psychologists
• 6 Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character)
• 5 African American men
• 5 Japanese Americans
• 5 Mystery and detective stories
• 5 Serial murder investigation
• 5 Serial murderers
• 5 Young women
• 4 Actors

• 11 Connelly, Michael, 1956-
• 10 Grafton, Sue
• 10 James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature
• 9 Kellerman, Jonathan
• 7 Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959
• 6 Ide, Joe
• 6 Mosley, Walter
• 5 McPherson, Catriona, 1965-
• 4 Cunningham, E. V., 1914-2003
• 3 Brown, P. A. (Mystery writer)
• 3 Clark, Marcia
• 3 Cutler, Stan
• 3 Ellroy, James, 1948-
• 3 Patterson, James, 1947-
• 3 Wilson, John Morgan, 1945-
• 2 Copp, Rick
• 2 Corpi, Lucha, 1945-
• 2 Dave, Laura
• 2 Deaver, Jeffery
• 2 Gray, Lisa (Journalist)
• 2 Kellerman, Faye
• 2 Muller, Marcia
• 2 Paetro, Maxine
• 2 Pronzini, Bill
• 2 Quick, Amanda

• 146 English
• 3 Russian
• 1 Spanish

• 83 Los Angeles
• 54 Los Angeles (Calif.)
• 16 San Francisco
• 13 Californie
• 13 San Francisco (Calif.)
• 12 Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• 11 Hollywood
• 3 Los Angeles (Calif)
• 3 United States
• 2 Las Vegas
• 2 Las Vegas (Nev.)
• 2 Nevada
• 2 New York (State)
• 2 Northern California
• 2 Sausalito
• 2 Sausalito (Calif.)
• 1 Alcatraz Island
• 1 Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
• 1 Austin
• 1 Austin (Tex.)
• 1 Berkeley
• 1 Berkeley (Calif.)
• 1 California, Northern
• 1 California, Southern

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