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Searchable Databases related to the study of Detective Fiction in English, in a variety of media – print, film, and television.

The site consists of a number of searchable webliographies. Researchers may search by author, title, or keyword. Search one list at a time, search a combination of lists, or search all lists at once.

Four of our webliographies list primary materials:

• CANADIAN DETECTIVE FICTION – NOVELS,
• CANADIAN DETECTIVE FICTION – SHORT STORIES,
• CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FILM,
• CRIME MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE TELEVISION.

The remaining webliographies list secondary sources – scholarly and critical materials about this genre:

• GENERAL CRITICISM OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE GENRE
• CRITICISM OF CANADIAN CRIME MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION
• CRITICISM OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE TELEVISION
• CRITICISM OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTION FILM
• GENERAL CRITICISM OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE GENRE
• THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON CRIME. MYSTERY AND DETECTION

In addition, we have created a list that is a complilation of the James Gibson Library’s SKENE-MELVIN COLLECTION OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION.

The Crime Fiction Canada Database is owned and maintained by Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose of Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and is intended for the use of individual researchers.