Non-Fiction
Many books have been written about mysteries from an academic perspective. Here’s our list of non-fiction books related to cozy mysteries.
Agatha Christie on Screen
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Agatha Christie’s Marple
How to Write a Mystery
Silent Killers – From Arsenic to Strychnine
Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre
Writing a Cozy Mystery: Case Files
An Autobiography
Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot
Mastering Plot Twists
Writing the Cozy Mystery
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
The Golden Age of Murder
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
I Kill People For A Living
How To Write Killer Historical Mysteries
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie
How To Write a Cozy Mystery
Agatha Annotated
How To Write A Classic Murder Mystery
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot: The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot
Writing the Mystery
What’s Your Agatha Christie I.Q?
Hearts and Hazards: Writing the Gay Cozy Mystery
Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel
How to Write a Murder Mystery
Crime Scene: Britain and Ireland
Cozy Mystery Writer’s Handbook
Dinner is Announced
Don’t Murder Your Mystery
100 Greatest Literary Detectives
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
Promophobia
The Technique of the Mystery Story
The Art of the English Murder
A Very British Murder
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman