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

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

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

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
• 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

   

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)

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

Marsh, Ngaio 

• Drayton, Joanne -- Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime (2008)

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

Upfield, Arthur

• de Hoog, Kees - When Bony Was There: A Chronology of the Life and Career of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte

Wallace, Edgar 

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

Woolrich, Cornell

      Nevins, Francis M Jr - Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die