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)
• 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
• 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 - Encylopaedia of Mystery and Detection
• Symons, Julian - The Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigations
• Watson, Colin - Snobbery with Violence (1971)
• Winks, Robin W (Editor) - Detective Fiction: a Collection of Critical Essays (1980)
• Winn, Dilys - Murder Ink and Murderess Ink
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Specific Authors

Boucher, Anthony

• Boucher, Anthony - The Anthony Boucher Chronicles edited by Francis Nevins

Carr, John Dickson

• Greene, Douglas G - John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles
• Joshi, ST - John Dickson Carr: A critical study

Christie, Agatha 

• Barnard, Robert - A Talent to Deceive: an appreciation of Agatha Christie
• Bayard, Pierre - Who Killed Roger Ackroyd: The mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery
• Gripenberg, Monika - Agatha Christie
• 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

   

Conan Doyle, Arthur 

• McQueen, Ian - Sherlock Holmes Detected
• Pointer, Michael - The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes (1975)
• Thomson, June - Holmes and Watson: A Study in Friendship (1995)

Punshon, ER 

• Sarjeant, William AS - Punshon's Policemen: The Two Detective Series of E. R. Punshon

Sayers, Dorothy L 

• Dale, Alzina Stone - Dorothy L Sayers: The centenary celebration edited by Alzina Stone Dale
• Dale, Alzina Stone - Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers

Wallace, Edgar 

• Lane, Margaret - Edgar Wallace - the Biography of a Phenomenon (1964)