• 45 Books

• 6 Scudder, Matt (Fictitious character)
• 4 Wolfe, Nero (Fictitious character)
• 3 Chin, Lydia (Fictitious character)
• 3 Ex-convicts
• 3 Missing persons
• 3 Smith, Bill (Fictitious character)
• 2 African American detectives
• 2 Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character)
• 2 Burke (Fictitious character)
• 2 Chinese Americans
• 2 Fathers and daughters
• 2 Hastings, Stanley (Fictitious character)
• 2 Intelligence officers
• 2 Investigation
• 2 Murder
• 2 Women detectives
• 2 Women private investigators
• 1 Actors
• 1 Adultery
• 1 African American men
• 1 African American women
• 1 Arson
• 1 Art thefts
• 1 Brothers

• 6 Block, Lawrence
• 4 Rozan, S. J
• 3 Vachss, Andrew H
• 2 Fusilli, Jim
• 2 Goldsborough, Robert
• 2 Hall, Parnell
• 2 Mosley, Walter
• 2 Spiegelman, Peter
• 2 Stout, Rex, 1886-1975
• 2 Woods, Stuart
• 1 Atwood, Russell
• 1 Baker, John F., 1942-
• 1 Barrett, Dean
• 1 Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
• 1 Collins, Max Allan
• 1 Culhane, Patrick, 1948-
• 1 Edwards, Grace F. (Grace Frederica)
• 1 Garcia, Eric
• 1 Henderson, C. J
• 1 Huston, Charlie
• 1 Kotzwinkle, William
• 1 Littell, Robert, 1935-
• 1 Queen, Ellery
• 1 Quinn, Peter (Peter A.)
• 1 Randisi, Robert J

• 45 English

• 45 New York (State)
• 25 New York (N.Y.)
• 2 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Caribbean Area
• 1 Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Connecticut
• 1 Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• 1 New Jersey
• 1 Schoharie
• 1 Schoharie (N.Y.)

• 45 Fiction
• 2 Detective and mystery fiction
• 2 Historical fiction
• 2 Noir fiction
• 2 Psychological fiction
• 1 Adventure fiction
• 1 Detective and mystery stories
• 1 Domestic fiction
• 1 Legal stories
• 1 Mystery and detective fiction
• 1 Occult fiction
• 1 Spy stories
• 1 Suspense fiction
• 1 Thrillers (Fiction)

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