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Golden Gate Mysteries
A Bibliography of crime fiction set in the San
Francisco Bay area

Compiled and maintained by librarian Randal Brandt this website covers crime fiction relating to San Francisco in the United States.

As a bibliography it includes some 1,250 titles of mystery, detective, and crime fiction with the action, or significant parts of the action, set in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

It includes a section for new and forthcoming titles and is searchable by author. Many of the entries have summaries of the plot which could serve as inspiration to a writer for a new work.

San Francisco is home to a wide variety of literary detectives, according to an online overview.

Perhaps the most famous of all Bay Area crime stories is Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1930), featuring San Francisco gumshoe Sam Spade.

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