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Where's
My Mystery Book?
Mysteries
in the Fiction Stacks
Can you tell a book by it's cover? Sometimes, if the
cover says "a novel"- that's just where they put the
book: with the fiction!
 All
these police thrillers: Joseph Wambaugh's - Choirboys
and William Caunitz' One
Police Plaza are in Fiction while J.A.
Jance's Dead Wrong is in Mystery.
 How
about the dark underbelly of Los Angeles? James Ellroy's
American
Tabloid and The
Big Nowhere are in Fiction while L.A.
Confidential and L.A.
Noir are in Mystery.
Are
you interested in Forensic pathology? - Jeffrey Deaver's
Bone
Collector is in Fiction but Patricia Cornwell's
Kay Scarpetta books are in Mystery , and Tess Gerritsen's
medical thrillers and Robin Cook's Contagion, Joseph Glass' Blood:
a Susan Shader novel are in Fiction, but Leonard
Goldberg's Joanna Blalock books are in Mystery
Here
are some general searching tips to help you find books
in both Fiction and Mystery.
If your sleuth is a journalist, firefighter or arson
expert, an attorney or a psychologist, don't forget
to try Fiction. Almost all the thrillers about terrorists,
and the FBI or the CIA are in Fiction.
About
subject searching in the catalog- the Library of Congress
is adding more "genre" subject headings. Try these headings:
Mystery fiction (was Detective and mystery stories),
Suspense fiction, Crime fiction. You will probably find
more than you can possible read so you may want to narrow
it down.
Try
this - use the first part of the subject: e.g. "forensic"
and go through the long list of categories looking for
forensic and fiction
The
same example works for location try this- Crime--location
name--fiction, or location name--fiction. Here's an
example:
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