Non-fiction books about the Golden Age in general
- Adey,Robert - Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Revised)
- Ball, John - The Mystery Story
- Barzun, Jacques & Taylor, Wendell Hertig - A Catalogue of Crime
- Binyon, TJ - Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction
- Bourgeau, Art - The Mystery Lover's Companion
- Breen, Jon L - A Shot Rang Out: selected mystery criticism (2008)
- Everson, William K -- The Detective in Film (1974)
- Gilbert, Michael (Ed) -- Crime in Good Company (1959)
- Hanson, Gillian Mary - City and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery
- Haycraft, Howard - Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story
- Haycraft, Howard - The Art of the Mystery Story (1946)
- Keating, HRF - The Bedside Companion to Crime
- Keating, HRF (Editor) - Whodunit: Guide to crime, suspense & spy fiction
- la Cour, Tage and Mogensen, Harald: The Murder Book: An Illustrated History of the Detective Story (1971)
- Panek, Leroy Lad - Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940
- Pearsall, Jay - Mystery & Crime: the NY Public Library book of answers
- Pronzini, Bill - Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek
- Queen, Ellery - In the Queens' Parlour
- Reilly, John M (Editor) - Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
- Routley, Erik - The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story (1972)
- Scott, Sutherland - Blood in Their Ink (1953)
- Steinbrunner, Chris and Penzler, Otto - Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
- Symons, Julian - The Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigations
- Symons, Julian - Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
- Watson, Colin - Snobbery with Violence: Essay help (1971)
- Winks, Robin W (Editor) - Detective Fiction: a Collection of Critical Essays (1980)
- Winn, Dilys - Murder Ink and Murderess Ink
Specific Authors
Chandler, Raymond
Bruccoli, Matthew J - Raymond Chandler: A Checklist
Bruccoli, Matthew J - Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography
Clark, Al - Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Durham, Philip - Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler's Knight
Gross, Miriam, editor - The World of Raymond Chandler
Hiney, Tom - Raymond Chandler: A Biography
Hiney, Tom & MacShane, Frank, editors - The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
Gardiner, Dorothy & Walker, Kathrine Sorley, editors - Raymond Chandler Speaking
MacShane, Frank - The Life of Raymond Chandler
MacShane, Frank, editor - Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
Moss, Robert F, editor - Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference
Speir, Jerry - Raymond Chandler
Thorpe, Edward - Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe
Ward, Elizabeth & Silver, Alain - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
- Barnard, Robert - A Talent to Deceive: an appreciation of Agatha Christie
- Bayard, Pierre - Who Killed Roger Ackroyd: The mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery
- Christie, Agatha -- An Autobiography
- Gripenberg, Monika - Agatha Christie: Professional resume writer
- Hart, Anne - The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot
- Hart, Anne - The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple
- Morgan, Janet - Agatha Christie: a Biography
- Osborne, Charles - Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie
- Riley, Dick; McAllister, Pam - The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
- Sanders, Dennis; Lovallo,Len - The Agatha Christie Companion: The complete guide to Agatha Christie's life and work
- Zemboy, James - The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie: Professional resume writer
Hammett, Dashiell
Dooley, Dennis - Dashiell Hammett
Johnson, Diane - Dashiell Hammett: A Life
Layman, Richard with Rivett, Julie M, editors - Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett
Nolan, William F - Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook
Nolan, William F - Hammett: A Life at the Edge
Macdonald, Ross
Bruccoli, Matthew J - Ross Macdonald
Macdonald, Ross - On Crime Writing
Macdonald, Ross - Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly Into the Past
Sipper, Ralph B, editor - Ross Macdonald's Inward Journey
Speir, Jerry - Ross Macdonald
Woolrich, Cornell
Nevins, Francis M Jr - Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die
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