Screening Sherlock (2025)
A Cultural History of the Great Detective on Film and Television
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Watching the Cops (2023)
Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television
Dir. Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives (2023)
by Jason Jacobs
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Agatha Christie, She Watched (2023)
One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband
Publisher: Peschel Press
Perplexing Plots (2023)
Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
Publisher: Columbia University Press
The Mysterious Romance of Murder (2022)
Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir
by David Lehman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Anxious Cinephilia (2020)
Pleasure and Peril at the Movies
by Sarah Keller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, and Television (2019)
Dir. Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey
Publisher: LSU Press
Trial Films on Trial (2019)
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Dir. Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Patricia Highsmith on Screen (2018)
Dir. Wieland Schwanebeck and Douglas McFarland
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema (2017)
Precarious Identities
Dir. Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig and Anke Zechner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Mystery Classics on Film (2017)
The Adaptation of 65 Novels and Stories
by Ron Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Film Noir Production (2016)
The Whodunit of the Classic American Mystery Film
by David Landau
Publisher: Routledge
Agatha Christie on Screen (2016)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Who Is Sherlock? (2016)
Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations
Dir. Lynnette Porter
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes (2015)
Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009
Dir. Nadine Farghaly
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Sherlock Holmes Faq (2015)
All That's Left to Know About the World's Greatest Private Detective
by Dave Thomson
Publisher: Applause Books
Criminology Goes to the Movies (2011)
Crime Theory and Popular Culture
by Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Maximum Movies - Pulp Fictions (2011)
Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Detecting Women (2011)
Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths (2008)
Essays on the Fiction of Girl Detectives
Dir. Michael G. Cornelius and Melanie E. Gregg
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Detecting Men (2006)
Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Police on Screen (2006)
Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers
by M. Ray Lott
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Law on the Screen (2005)
Dir. Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Zones Of Anxiety (2005)
Movement, Musidora, and the crime serials of Louis Feuillade
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema (2004)
A Critical Study of the Film Adaptations
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Charlie Chan at the Movies (2004)
History, Filmography, and Criticism
by Ken Hanke
Publisher: McFarland & Co
> Other books on the subject of Mystery:
Have Yourself a Merry Legal Christmas (2025)
Laws and Justice in Holiday Movies and Television Shows
by David Krell
Sherlock in the Seventies (2021)
A Wild Decade of Sherlock Holmes Films
Ripped from the Headlines! (2020)
The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives (2019)
Supernatural and Paranormal Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media
by Paul Green
Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters (2016)
600 Characters and Shows, 1950s to the Present
Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters (2011)
All Regular Cast Members in American Crime and Mystery Series, 1948-1959
Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows (2009)
Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008
by Hal Erickson
Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations (2004)
The Catalog of a Collection
by Thomas Mann