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James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues (1990) and Cimarron Rose (1998). The Robicheaux character has been portrayed...
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sue Grafton is the daughter of novelist C. W. Grafton and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of...
Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is a highly-regarded and very prolific American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science...
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. More than 350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and...
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry...
Marcia Muller
Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944) is an American author of fictional mystery and thriller novels.
Muller has written 25 novels featuring her Sharon McCone female private detective character. Vanishing Point, won the Shamus Award for Best P.I....
Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937, in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States.
The son of a police officer, Wambaugh...
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Ira Levin
Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.
Levin attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. At Drake, he regularly played poker with other notables, such as Martin Erlichman and Eugene...
Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an American crime writer. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which was dramatized as a television series, Spenser: For Hire, on the ABC network during the late 1980s. His works incorporate...
Edward D. Hoch
Edward Dentinger Hoch (February 22, 1930 – January 17, 2008) was a prolific American writer of detective fiction. Although he wrote several novels, he was primarily known for his vast short story output which, at the time of his death, was over 900....
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark, née Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (born December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York), is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her twenty-four books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries,...
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P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring her...
Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertz (born September 29, 1927) is an author who writes under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.
Barbara Mertz has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago in Egyptology, studying under John A. Wilson, which she received at...
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, (born 17 February 1930), who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is a prolific English crime writer, acclaimed for her fine psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.
In addition...
Dick Francis
Dick Francis CBE (born Richard Stanley Francis on 31 October 1920) is a British horse racing crime writer and retired jockey.
Francis was born in Lawrenny, south Wales, in October 1920, the son of a jockey and stable manager. He left school at 15...
Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold...
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively....
Donald E. Westlake
Donald Edwin Westlake (12 July 1933 – 31 December 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers with an occasional foray into science fiction....
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have...
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008) was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Some of his works were made into big-screen and television movies...
Helen McCloy
Helen McCloy (1904 - 1994), pseudonym Helen Clarkson, was an American mystery writer, whose series character Dr. Basil Willing debuted in Dance of Death (1938). Willing believes, that "every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints, and he can't wear...
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Hillary Waugh
Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920—December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Waugh graduated in 1942 from Yale, majoring...
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Phyllis A. Whitney
Phyllis Ayame Whitney (September 9, 1903 – February 8, 2008) was an American mystery writer. Rare for her genre, she wrote mysteries for both the juvenile and the adult markets, many of which feature exotic locations. A review in The New York Times...
Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert, (July 17, 1912 – February 8, 2006), was a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who wrote as Michael Gilbert.
Gilbert was a lawyer in London for many years and at one point had Raymond Chandler as his...
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Ed McBain
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born April 26, 1916, Chicago, Illinois) is an American crime fiction writer.
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John le Carré
John le Carré (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, born 19 October 1931) is an English author of espionage novels, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the...
Margaret Millar
Margaret Ellis Millar (née Sturm) (February 5, 1915 - March 26, 1994) was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer.
Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she was educated there and in Toronto. She moved to the United States after marrying Kenneth...
Julian Symons
Julian Gustave Symons (1912 - 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.
Julian Symons was born in London. He was a younger brother, and later the biographer, of the...
Stanley Ellin
Stanley Bernard Ellin (October 6, 1916 – July 31, 1986) was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He garnered a love for reading at a young age with an interest in works by the likes of Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and...
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William R. Burnett
William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first of the classic...
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Aaron Marc Stein
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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989; pronounced /ˈdæfni duː ˈmɒrieɪ/) was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca, which won the Best Picture...
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Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (10 August 1904 – 6 May 1993) was an American crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947...
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Ngaio Marsh
Dame Ngaio Marsh DBE (April 23, 1895–February 18, 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900.
Ngaio ...
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene OM, CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was notable for his ability to combine serious...
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Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential English author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.
Ambler was born...
Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915, Los Gatos, California - July 11, 1983, Santa Barbara, California). He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled...
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both...
Judson Philips
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John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916–December 28, 1986) was an American author.
MacDonald was a prolific writer of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically...
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Mignon G. Eberhart
Mignon Good Eberhart (6 July 1899, Lincoln, Nebraska - 8 October 1996, Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American author of mystery novels.
Mignonette Good was born 6 July 1899 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a teenager, Good often wrote short stories and...
James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labelling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the...
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John Creasey
John Creasey (born September 17, 1908 in Surrey – died June 9, 1973 in Salisbury, Wiltshire) was a prolific English crime writer, who published in excess of 600 novels under 28 different pseudonyms, including Patrick Dawlish, Anthony Morton, Michael...
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Baynard Kendrick
Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (1894-1977) wrote whodunit mystery novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private investigator who worked with his two German shepherds and his household of assistants to solve murder mysteries. The novels were the basis for...
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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʀʒ simˈnɔ̃]) (February 13, 1903 – September 4, 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation...
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George Harmon Coxe
George Harmon Coxe (1901-January 31, 1984) was an American writer of crime fiction.His series characters are Jack "Flashgun" Casey, Kent Murdock, Leon Morley, Sam Crombie, Max Hale and Jack Fenner. Casey and Murdock are both detectives and...
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John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906–February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of...
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 Malden, Massachusetts – March 11, 1970 Temecula, California) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories, who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton...
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee ...
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's...
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Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974) was an American writer and newspaperman.
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born on October 26, 1886 above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto. His father moved the family to Chicago in the...
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her...
