Home - Where you will find out more about mystery novels, find new authors, and learn about some really great older ones.
Boston College Collection of Detective Fiction - Includes the Rex Stout archive., Boston, MA
The Vincent Starrett Collection - At the University of Northern Illinois.
The Mildred Wirt Benson Collection - At the University of Iowa. Mildred Wirt Benson was the original author of the Nancy Drew series.
The Kent State University Department of Special Collections and Archives - This libraries has papers of August Derleth, Raymond Chandler, and R. Austin Freeman. There is also a collection dime novels and penny dreadfuls.
The Borowitz True Crime Collection - at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
The Russel B. Nye Collection - at the University of Michigan.
The George Kelly Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection - Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo, NY.
Gumshoes, Sleuths, and Snoopers - A searchable database of mystery novels published between 1930 and 1965. This is based on the George P. Kelly collection at the University of Buffalo.
Browne Popular Culture Library -
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Detective, Mystery, and Suspense Fiction - Research collection at the New York Public Library
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