• 99 Memorial Library
• 7 Law Library
• 3 MERIT Library
• 2 College Library
• 1 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 1 Wisconsin Historical Society Library

• 155 Books
• 6 Sound Recordings
• 1 Videos, Slides, Films

• 6 Compact Discs
• 1 DVDs

• 45 Private investigators
• 24 Spenser (Fictitious character)
• 21 Police
• 21 Women detectives
• 12 Investigation
• 10 Murder
• 9 Police chiefs
• 7 Carlyle, Carlotta (Fictitious character)
• 7 Missing persons
• 7 Stone, Jesse (Fictitious character)
• 6 Gay men
• 5 Gennaro, Angela (Fictitious character)
• 5 Kenzie, Patrick (Fictitious character)
• 5 Lawyers
• 5 Rabbis
• 5 Serial murders
• 5 Small, David (Fictitious character)
• 5 Women private investigators
• 4 College teachers
• 4 Coyne, Brady (Fictitious character)
• 4 Crimes against
• 4 Cuddy, John Francis (Fictitious character)
• 4 Kelling, Sarah (Fictitious character)
• 3 Beauty operators
• 3 Children

• 37 Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010
• 9 Lehane, Dennis
• 7 Barnes, Linda
• 5 James W. Jones Collection of Gay and Lesbian Literature
• 5 Kemelman, Harry
• 4 Gardner, Lisa
• 4 Healy, J. F. (Jeremiah F.), 1948-2014
• 4 MacLeod, Charlotte
• 4 Michaels, Grant
• 4 Tapply, William G
• 3 Clark, Mary Higgins
• 3 Craig, Philip R., 1933-2007
• 3 Dobson, Joanne, 1942-
• 3 Langton, Jane, 1922-2018
• 2 Allen, Irene, 1960-
• 2 Atkins, Ace
• 2 Barry, Quan
• 2 Coburn, Andrew
• 2 Hoffman, Alice
• 2 Kemprecos, Paul
• 2 Maclean, Anna
• 2 Pearl, Matthew
• 2 Pickard, Nancy
• 1 Ablow, Keith R
• 1 Aldridge, Ethan M.

• 162 English
• 1 French
• 1 Spanish

• 89 Boston
• 73 Boston (Mass.)
• 7 Cape Cod
• 6 Cambridge
• 6 Cape Cod (Mass.)
• 6 Martha's Vineyard
• 6 Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)
• 5 Cambridge (Mass.)
• 4 Provincetown
• 4 Provincetown (Mass.)
• 3 Boston (Mass)
• 2 Danvers
• 2 Danvers (Mass.)
• 2 Washington (D.C.)
• 1 Enfield
• 1 Enfield (Mass.)
• 1 Fall River
• 1 France
• 1 Italy
• 1 Lowell
• 1 Lowell (Mass.)
• 1 Maine
• 1 Marblehead
• 1 Marblehead (Mass.)

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