B Babson, Marian Bagley, Desmond Bailey, H. C. Ball, John Balzac, Honoré de Barnard, Robert Barr, Nevada Barr, Robert Beeding, Francis Bell, Josephine Bennett, Arnold Bentley, E. C. Berkeley, Anthony Bierce, Ambrose Biggers, Earl Derr Blake, Nicholas Bland, Eleanor Taylor Bloch, Robert Block, Lawrence Boileau, Pierre, & Thomas Narcejac Borges, Jorge Luis Boucher, Anthony Box, Edgar Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Bramah, Ernest Brand, Christianna Braun, Lilian Jackson Breen, Jon L. Brett, Simon Brown, Fredric Brown, Sandra Bruce, Leo Bruen, Ken Buchan, John Buckley, William F., Jr. Burdett, John Burke, James Lee Burley, W. J. Burnett, W. R. Burns, Rex

C Cain, James M. Cannell, Stephen J. Carmichael, Harry Carr, John Dickson Carter, Nick Caspary, Vera Caudwell, Sarah Chance, John Newton Chandler, Raymond Charteris, Leslie Chase, James Hadley Chesterton, G. K. Cheyney, Peter Child, Lee Childers, Erskine Christie, Agatha Clark, Mary Higgins Clarke, Anna Cleary, Jon Cody, Liza Coel, Margaret Cohen, Octavus Roy Cole, G. D. H., & Cole Collins, Max Allan Collins, Michael Collins, Wilkie Conant, Susan Connelly, Michael Connolly, John Cook, Thomas H. Cornwell, Patricia Cotterill, Colin Coxe, George Harmon Crais, Robert Cray, David Creasey, John Crispin, Edmund Crofts, Freeman Wills Crombie, Deborah Cross, Amanda Crumley, James Cunningham, E. V.

D Daly, Carroll John Daly, Elizabeth Davidson, Lionel Davies, L. P. Davis, Lindsey DeAndrea, William L. Deighton, Len Dent, Lester Derleth, August Deverell, William Dexter, Colin Dibdin, Michael Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Peter Doderer, Heimito von Donaldson, D. J. Dostoevski, Fyodor Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von Dumas, Alexandre, père Du Maurier, Daphne Dunant, Sarah Dunning, John Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

E Eberhart, Mignon G. Eco, Umberto Eisler, Barry Elkins, Aaron Ellin, Stanley Ellroy, James Estleman, Loren Eustis, Helen Evanovich, Janet

F Fairstein, Linda Faulkner, William Fearing, Kenneth Ferrars, E. X. Fish, Robert L. Fleming, Ian Fleming, Joan Fletcher, J. S. Flower, Pat Follett, Ken Forester, C. S. Forsyth, Frederick Francis, Dick Fraser, Antonia Freeling, Nicolas Freeman, R. Austin Furst, Alan Futrelle, Jacques

G Gaboriau, Émile Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner, John Garve, Andrew Gash, Jonathan Gault, William Campbell George, Elizabeth Gerritsen, Tess Gibson, Walter B. Gilbert, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Gill, B. M. Gilman, Dorothy Godwin, William Gores, Joe Goulart, Ron Graeme, Bruce Grafton, Sue Graham, Caroline Graham, Winston Granger, Ann Green, Anna Katharine Greene, Graham Greenleaf, Stephen Grimes, Martha Grisham, John

H Haggard, William Hall, James Wilson Halliday, Brett Hamilton, Donald Hammett, Dashiell Hansen, Joseph Hanshew, Thomas W. Hare, Cyril Harris, Thomas Hart, Carolyn Harvester, Simon Harvey, John Healy, Jeremiah F. Henry, O. Hess, Joan Heyer, Georgette Hiaasen, Carl Highsmith, Patricia Hill, Reginald Hillerman, Tony Himes, Chester Hinojosa, Rolando Hoch, Edward D. Holmes, Rupert Holton, Leonard Hornung, E. W. Household, Geoffrey Hull, Richard Huxley, Elspeth

I Innes, Michael

J Jacobs, W. W. James, Bill James, P. D. Jances, J. A. Johnston, Velda

K Kaminsky, Stuart M. Keating, H. R. F. Keeler, Harry Stephen Kelly, Mary Kemelman, Harry Kendrick, Baynard H. Kerr, Philip Kersh, Gerald King, Laurie King, Peter King, Stephen Kirino, Natsuo Knight, Kathleen Moore Knox, Ronald A. Koontz, Dean R. Kyd, Thomas

L Lacy, Ed Lathen , Emma Latimer, Jonathan Laurence, Janet Leblanc, Maurice Le Carré, John Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan Lehane, Dennis Leonard, Elmore Leonov, Leonid Maksimovich Le Queux, William Leroux, Gaston Lescroart, John Levin, Ira Linington, Elizabeth Lippman, Laura Lockridge, Richard, & Frances Lockridge Lovesey, Peter Lowndes, Marie Belloc Ludlum, Robert

M McBain, Ed McCarry, Charles McClure, James McCrumb, Sharyn Mcdonald, Gregory MacDonald, John D. Macdonald, Ross Magnan, Pierre McGerr, Patricia McGinley, Patrick McGivern, William P. McGown, Jill McInerny, Ralph MacInnes, Helen McKinty, Adrian MacLean, Alistair MacLeod, Charlotte Maitland, Barry Maron, Margaret Marquand, John P. Marsh, Ngaio Mason, A. E. W. Matera, Lia Matsumoto, Seicho Maugham, W. Somerset Maupassant, Guy de Mayor, Archer H. Melville, James Millar, Margaret Milne, A. A. Mina, Denise Mitchell, Gladys Miyabe, Miyuki Morell, David Morice, Anne Morrison, Arthur Mortimer, John Mosley, Walter Moyes, Patricia Müllner, Adolf

N Natsuki, Shizuko Nebel, Frederick Neely, Barbara Neely, Richard

O O'Connell, Carol Oppenheim, E. Phillips Orczy, Baroness

P Palmer, Stuart Paretsky, Sara Parker, Robert B. Pears, Iain Pelecanos, George Pentecost, Hugh Perry, Thomas Peters, Elizabeth Peters, Ellis Phillpotts, Eden Pickard, Nancy Poe, Edgar Allan Porter, Joyce Post, Melville Davisson Potts, Jean Preston, Douglas, & Lincoln Child Priestley, J. B. Pronzini, Bill Puig, Manuel

Q Qiu, Xiaolong Queen, Ellery Quentin, Patrick

R Radcliffe, Ann Rankin, Ian Reeve, Arthur B. Reichs, Kathleen Reilly, Helen Rendell, Ruth Rhode, John Rice, Craig Rickman, Philip Rinehart, Mary Roberts Robbe-Grillet, Alain Roberts, James Hall Robinson, Peter Rohmer, Sax Rowland, Laura Joh Rowling, J. K.

S Saki Sallis, James Sanders, Lawrence Sapper Sayers, Dorothy L. Saylor, Steven Shaffer, Anthony Simenon, Georges Sjöwall, Maj, & Per Wahlööm Slovo, Gillian Smith, Alexander McCall Smith, Julie Smith, Martin Cruz Spillane, Mickey Spring, Michelle Stabenow, Dana Starrett, Vincent Stevenson, Robert Louis Stewart, Mary Stockton, Frank R. Stout, Rex Stratemeyer, Edward Stubbs, Jean Sue, Eugène Symons, Julian

T Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II Takagi, Akimitsu Taylor, Phoebe Atwood Teilhet, Darwin L. Tey, Josephine Thomas, Ross Thompson, Jim Todd, Charles Torre, Lillian de la Treat, Lawrence Tremayne, Peter Trevor, Elleston Truman, Margaret Turow, Scott Twain, Mark

U Upfield, Arthur W.

V Valin, Jonathan Van Dine, S. S. Van Gulik, Robert H. Vazquez Montalban, Manuel Vidocq, François-Eugène Voltaire Vulliamy, C. E.

W Wade, Henry Waites, Martyn Waldron, Ann Wallace, Edgar Walters, Minette Wambaugh, Joseph Waugh, Hillary Webb, Jack Wentworth, Patricia Westlake, Donald E. Wetering, Janwillem van de Wheatley, Dennis Whitechurch, Victor Whitney, Phyllis A. Willeford, Charles Winslow, Don Woods, Stuart Woolrich, Cornell

Z Zangwill, Israel

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Appendixes Bibliography Web resources Major Awards Time Line of Mystery and Detective Fiction Glossary Chronological List of Writers

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