Lists of Bests: Mystery Writers of America's "Edgar Award: Best Critical/Biographical Work" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/31357 Hardbound or paperback. "Biographical" refers to biographies of mystery writers or other notable practitioners of the genre, not to criminals (those are found in the Best Fact Crime category: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21179 ). Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:31:17 GMT en-us 0 50 33 0 0 Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775362 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler</div> Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2087217 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2087217"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0918736439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John J. McAleer</div> The Mystery of Agatha Christie http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775369 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gwen Robins</div> Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/376159 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph E. Hone</div> Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775373 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Reilly (ed.)</div> What About Murder? A Guide to Books About Mystery and Detective Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179605 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1179605"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0810814137.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon L. Breen</div> Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/289385 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/289385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0809313618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roy Hoopes</div> The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/229356 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/229356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/030680932X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59064860_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Spoto</div> Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775375 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon L. Breen</div> John Le Carre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/171851 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Lewis</div> Here Lies: An Autobiography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2150724 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Ambler</div> An Introduction to the Detective Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775377 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leroy Lad Panek</div> Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/527285 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis M. Nevins</div> The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I: 1904-1939 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005872 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005872"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H2MXKG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Sherry</div> Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775379 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Conquest</div> Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/652065 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/652065"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060923318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Silverman</div> Alias S.S. Van Dine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775382 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Loughery</div> The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris' Robin Hood of Modern Crime, Simon Templar, 1928-1992 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169206 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/169206"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786416807.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056487990_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Burl Barer</div> Encyclopedia Mysteriosa: A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in Print, Film, Radio, and Television http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1809825 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1809825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0028616782.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056413422_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William L. Deandrea</div> Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18760 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18760"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Polito</div> The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204352 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1204352"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0472085662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120298354_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Atkinson</div> 'G' Is for Grafton : The World of Kinsey Millhone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816640 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/816640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000F6Z7ES.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Natalie Hevener Kaufman</div> Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775384 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775384"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684805197.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin W., Editor Winks</div> Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455537 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/455537"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805066845.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493013_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Stashower</div> Conundrums for the Long Week-End : England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/376141 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/376141"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0873386655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Kuhn McGregor</div> Edgar Allan Poe A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (The Literary A to Z Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1054953 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1054953"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081604161X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dawn B. Sova</div> The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/719896 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/719896"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786710063.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/274214 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/274214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582344116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Wilson</div> The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10761 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10761"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393059162.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830296"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/015603056X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Rehak</div> The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2416272 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2416272"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0470128232.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43383877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. J. Wagner</div> Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893756 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893756"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01bUx1ceDJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Lellenberg</div> Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6351801 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dr. Harry Lee Poe</div>