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detective A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...

mystery Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange'' Films * ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film * ''Mystery'' ( ...

hard-boiled Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence ...

. Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors. Entries need an English Wikipedia page. Abbreviations: A = Australia, B = Belgium, C = Canada, Ch = China, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ic = Iceland, In = India, IoM = Isle of Man, Ir = Ireland, Is = Israel, It = Italy, J = Japan, Ma = Malta, Ne = Netherlands, NZ = N Zealand, P = Poland, R = Soviet Union/Russia, SA = S Africa, Sc = Scotland, Sw = Switzerland, T = Turkey, US = United States, W = Wales

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Megan Abbott Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspec ...

(born 1971, US) * Susan Wittig Albert (living, US) *

Steve Allen Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-cre ...

(1921–2000, US) * Jirō Akagawa (赤川次郎, born 1948, J) *

Boris Akunin Boris Akunin (russian: Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили, Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვ� ...

(born 1956, R), pseudonym of Grigori Chkhartishvili *

Margery Allingham Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Alli ...

(1904–1966, E) *

Eric Ambler Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for book ...

(1909–1998, E) * Sarah Andrews (died 2019, US) *

Gosho Aoyama is a Japanese manga artist best known for his manga series ''Detective Conan'' (1994–present), also known as ''Case Closed'' in some English-speaking countries. As of 2017, his various manga series had a combined 250 million copies in print wo ...

(青山剛昌, born 1963, J) *

Charlotte Armstrong Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 18, 1969 in Glendale, California) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenp ...

(1905–1969, US) *

Jake Arnott Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist and dramatist, author of ''The Long Firm'' (1999) and six other novels. Life Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire. Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs includin ...

(born 1961, E) *

Gianluca Arrighi Gianluca Arrighi (born 3 October 1972) is an Italian writer and criminal lawyer. Education and legal career Arrighi earned his MSc in Law, joining the Italian Bar Association in 2002. He has been Teaching Assistant of Criminal Law with both Sapi ...

(born 1972, It) *

Taku Ashibe is a Japanese mystery writer. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. Works in English translation ;Novel * '' Murder in ...

(芦辺拓, born 1958, J) *

Isaac Asimov yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (192 ...

(1920–1992, R/US) *

Pieter Aspe Pieter Aspe (officially ''Pierre Aspeslag''; 3 April 1953 – 1 May 2021) was a Belgian writer of a series of detective stories starring inspector Pieter Van In. These were adapted for the long-running TV series (2004–14) starring . He died ...

(1953–2021, B) * H. C. Asterley (1902–1973, E) *

Edward Atiyah Edward Selim Atiyah (Arabic: ادوار سليم عطية‎; 1903 – 22 October 1964) was an Anglo-Lebanese author and political activist. He is best known for his 1946 autobiography ''An Arab Tells His Story'', and his 1955 book ''The Arabs'' ...

(1903–1964, Lebanon) * Edward Attard (born 1947, Ma) *

Yukito Ayatsuji , who writes under his pen name , is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writin ...

(綾辻行人, born 1960, J), pseudonym of Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行) *

Desmond Bagley Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: ...

(1923–1983, E) * H. C. Bailey (1878–1961, E) * Deb Baker (born 1953, US) * John Baker (born 1942, E) *

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was an Indian Bengali-language writer. He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Sharadindu compos ...

(1899–1970, In) *

Ashok Banker Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings. The author of several well-received novels including ...

(born 1964, In) *

John Franklin Bardin John Franklin Bardin (November 30, 1916 – July 9, 1981) was an American crime writer, best known for three novels he wrote between 1946 and 1948. Biography Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father was a well-to-do coal merchant an ...

(1916–1981, US) *

Michael Bar-Zohar Michael Bar-Zohar ( he, מיכאל בר-זהר, born 30 January 1938) is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. He was a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment and Labor Party in the 1980s and early 1990s. Biography Born in Bul ...

(born 1938, Is) *

Burl Barer Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar. Career Fiction ''The Saint'' ''The Saint: A Complete History in ...

(born 1947, US) *

Robert Barnard Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable. Life and work ...

(1936–2013, E) *

Nevada Barr Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author of mystery fiction. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States. Early life Although Barr w ...

(born 1952, US) *

J. J. Barrie J. J. Barrie (born Barry Authors, July 7, 1933) is a Canadian songwriter and singer. He is best known for his 1976 UK chart-topper, " No Charge". Biography A former Blue Mink and Ocean manager, and ex-comedian, Barrie turned to songwriting and i ...

(born 1933, C) * Earle Basinsky (1923–1963, US) * G. D. Baum (living, US) *

William Bayer William Bayer (pronounced “byer”) is an American novelist, the author of twenty-one books including '' The New York Times'' best-sellers ''Switch'' and ''Pattern Crimes.'' Bayer has written a series of novels featuring fictional New York Pol ...

(born 1939, US) *

Simon Beckett Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960) is a British journalist and author. His books, in particular the crime series around forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter, have sold 21 million of copies worldwide, and enjoyed particular success in Germany ...

(born 1960, E) * George Bellairs (1902–1982, E/IoM), pseudonym of Harold Blundell *

Robert Leslie Bellem Robert Leslie Bellem (July 19, 1902 – April 1, 1968) was an American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio annou ...

(1902–1968, US) *

Edmund Clerihew Bentley Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse ...

(1875–1956, E) *

Earl Derr Biggers Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China. Biogra ...

(1884–1933, US) *

Mark Billingham Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Fin ...

(born 1961, E) *

Bimal Kar Bimal Kar (19 September 1921 — 26 August 2003) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Bengali. He received the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award presented by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel ''Asamay''. ...

(1921–2003, In) *

Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...

(1917–1994, US) *

Lawrence Block Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Mas ...

(born 1938, US) *

Deborah Blum Deborah Blum (born October 19, 1954) is an American science journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(born 1954, US) *

Ernest Borneman Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (12 April 1915 – 4 June 1995), also known by his self-chosen anglicisation Ernest Borneman, was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitat ...

(1915–1995, G/Austria) *

Ernest Bramah Ernest Bramah (20 March 186827 June 1942), the pseudonym of Ernest Brammah Smith, who was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were often ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jac ...

(1868–1942, E) *

Paolo Brera Paolo Alberto Brera (16 September 1949 – 21 February 2019) was an Italian economist, academic, journalist, multilingual translator and novelist. Biography Brera was born in Milan, the third son of journalist and writer Gianni Brera and teac ...

(1949–2019, It) *

Simon Brett Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British author of detective fiction, a playwright, and a producer-writer for television and radio. As an author, he is best known for his mystery s ...

(born 1945, E) * P. J. Brooke (living, Sc), pseudonym of Philip James O'Brien *

Fredric Brown Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.D. J. McReynolds, "The Short Fiction of Fredric Brown" in Frank N. Magill, (ed.) ''Survey of Science Fiction Literature'', Vol. 4 ...

(1906–1972, US) *

Pat Brown Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he w ...

(born 1955, US) *

Ken Bruen Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction. Biography Education and teaching career Born in Galway, he was educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a ...

(born 1951, Ir) *

John Buchan John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career ...

(1875–1940, Sc) * John Bude (1901–1957, E), pseudonym of Ernest Elmore *

James Lee Burke James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990) and ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master ...

(born 1936, US) *

Jan Burke Jan Burke (born August 1, 1953) is an American author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Agatha for Best Short Story, the Macavity, and Ellery Queen Readers Award. Bio Burke was born August 1, 1953, ...

(born 1953, US)

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* James M. Cain (1892–1977, US) * Paul Cain (1902–1966, US), pseudonym of George Caryl Sims *

Bernard Capes Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (30 August 1854 – 2 November 1918) was an English author. Biography Capes was born in London, one of eleven children: his elder sister, Harriet Capes, was a noted translator and author of more than a dozen childre ...

(1854–1918, E) *

John Dickson Carr John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He lived in England for a number of years, and is ...

(1906–1977, US) * Jane Casey (born 1977, Ir/E) *

Kathryn Casey Kathryn Casey is an American writer of mystery novels and non-fiction books. She is best known for writing ''She Wanted It All'', which recounts the case of Celeste Beard, who married an Austin multimillionaire only to convince her lesbian lover ...

(living, US) * Rajorshi Chakraborti (born 1977, In) * Chan Ho-Kei (born 1975, 陳浩基, Hong Kong/Taiwan) *

Jessie Chandler Jessie Chandler (born August 16, 1968) is an American author of mystery and humorous caper fiction, most of which is about lesbian protagonists. Her work includes the Shay O'Hanlon Caper Series, many short stories, and other novels. Chandler has ...

(born 1968, US) *

Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive durin ...

(1988–1959, US/E) * Vikram Chandra (born 1961, In) * Kate Charles (born 1950, US/E) *

Leslie Charteris Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.James Hadley Chase James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond ...

(1906–1985, E/Sw) * G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936, E) *

Lee Child James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his ''Jack Reacher'' novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American ...

(born 1954, E), pseudonym of James Dover Grant *

Chin Shunshin (18 February 192421 January 2015) was a Taiwanese and Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic. He is best known for his historical fictions and mystery novels based on Chinese and Asian history, including ''First Opium War'', ''Chines ...

(陳舜臣, 1924–2015, Taiwan/J) *

Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...

(1890–1976, E) *

Carol Higgins Clark Carol Higgins Clark (born July 28, 1956) is an American mystery author and actress. She is the daughter of suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, with whom she co-authored several Christmas novels, and the former sister-in-law of author Mary Jane ...

(born 1956, US) *

Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...

(1927–2020, US) *

Paul Cleave Paul Cleave (born 10 December 1974) is a crime fiction author from New Zealand. Life Paul Cleave is an internationally bestselling author who is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where all of his n ...

(born 1974, NZ) *

Brian Cleeve Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 – 11 March 2003) was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster on RTÉ television. Son of an Irish fathe ...

(1921–2003, E/Ir) *

Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel ''Rav ...

(born 1954, E) *

Harlan Coben Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Among his novels a ...

(born 1962, US) *

Liza Cody Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer. She is the author of 13 novels and many short stories. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entir ...

(born 1944, E) *

Max Allan Collins Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic novels. His work has been published in several formats and his ''Road to Perdition'' series was the basis for a film of the same name. He wrote the '' Di ...

(born 1948, US) *

Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to: * Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician * Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Ge ...

(1924–2005), pseudonym of Dennis Lynds *

Michael Connelly Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly is the bes ...

(born 1956, US) *

Sheila Connolly Sheila Connolly ( pen name, Sarah Atwell; 1950 – April 20, 2020) is a mystery writer and author of three mystery series published by Berkley Prime Crime. Biography Connolly was born in Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the ...

(1950–2020, US) *

Robin Cook Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook (28 February 19466 August 2005) was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001 whe ...

(born 1940, US) *

Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in ...

(born 1956, US) *

Anthony Berkeley Cox Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. Early life and education Anthony Berkeley Cox was born 5 July ...

(1893–1971, E) * Chris Culver (living, US) *

Philip R. Craig Philip R. Craig (December 10, 1933 – May 8, 2007) was a writer known for his Martha's Vineyard mysteries. Biography He was born in Santa Monica and raised on a cattle ranch near Durango, Colorado. In 1951 he attended Boston University intendi ...

(1933–2007, US) *

Robert Crais Robert Crais (pronounced ) (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as ''Hill Street Blues'', ''Cagney & Lacey'', '' Quincy'', ''Miami Vice'' and ''L.A. Law ...

(born 1953, US) *

John Creasey John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several charac ...

(1908–1973, E) *

Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...

(1942–2008, US) *

Catherine Crier Catherine Jean Crier is an American journalist and author of ''A Deadly Game'' and ''The Case Against Lawyers''. She was the youngest elected state judge in Texas history at age thirty and served as a Texas State District Judge for the 162nd Di ...

(born 1954, US) *

Edmund Crispin Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for ...

(1921–1978, E), pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery *

Freeman Wills Crofts Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Irish mystery author, best remembered for the character of Inspector Joseph French. A railway engineer by training, Crofts introduced railway themes into many of his stories, ...

(1879–1957, Ir/E) *

Amanda Cross Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning ...

(1926–2003, US), pseudonym of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun * James Crumley (1939–2008, US)

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* Jordan Dane (born 1953, US) *

Diane Mott Davidson Diane Mott Davidson (born ) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Her story ...

(born 1949, US) *

Carol Anne Davis Carol Anne Davis (born 1961 in Dundee, Scotland), is a Scottish crime novelist and a writer on crimes, especially those committed by children or young people. Biography Davis left school at 15, and later graduated from the University of Dundee ...

(born 1961, Sc) *

Dorothy Salisbury Davis Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis (April 25, 1916 − August 3, 2014) was an American crime fiction writer. Life and career Davis, an adopted child, was born in Chicago in 1916 and raised in Illinois by Margaret (Greer) and Alfred J. Salisbury ...

(1916–2014, US) *

Janet Dawson Janet Dawson MBE (born 1935) is an Australian artist who was a pioneer of abstract painting in Australia in the 1960s, having been introduced to abstraction during studies in England while she lived in Europe 1957–1960 She was also an accomp ...

(born 1949, US) *

Jeffery Deaver Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later ...

(born 1950, US) * Vicki Delany (born 1951, C) *

Lester Dent Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959) was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over ...

(1904–1959, US) * P. T. Deutermann (born 1941, US) *

William Deverell William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937) is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer. He is one of Canada's best-known novelists, whose first book, ''Needles'', which drew on his experiences as a criminal lawyer, won the McCle ...

(born 1937, C) *

Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his ''Inspector Morse'' series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, ''Inspector Morse'', fr ...

(1930–2017, E) * Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976/1977, C) *

Michael Dibdin Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime writer, best known for inventing Aurelio Zen, the principal character in 11 crime novels set in Italy. Early life Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (now West Mi ...

(1947–2007, E) *

Eric Jerome Dickey Eric Jerome Dickey (July 7, 1961January 3, 2021) was an American author. He wrote several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to ...

(1961–2021, US) *

Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association ...

(1927–2015, N Rhodesia/E) *

S. S. Van Dine S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-Worl ...

(1888–1939, US), pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright *

Doris Miles Disney Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 47 novels, many of which were best sellers; several were made into feature films or TV movies. In 14 of her writing years Disney published two n ...

(1907–1976, US) * Stacy Dittrich (born 1973, US) *

Stephen Dobyns Stephen J. Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey. Life Dobyns was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., an Episcopal minister, and Barbara Johnston Dobyns. Dobyns was r ...

(born 1941, US) * R. B. Dominic (1927–1997 and born 1929, US), pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart *

Tim Dorsey Tim Dorsey (born January 25, 1961) is an American novelist. He is known for a series starring Serge A. Storms, a mentally disturbed vigilante antihero who rampages across Florida enforcing his own moral code against a variety of low-life criminal ...

(born 1961, US) *

John E. Douglas John Edward Douglas (born ) is an American retired special agent and unit chief in the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was one of the first criminal profilers and has written books on criminal psychology. Early life a ...

(born 1945, US) *

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

(1859–1930, Sc/E) * John Dunning (1918–1990, US/Luxembourg) *

Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of the ...

(1932–2016, It) *

Edogawa Rampo , better known by the pen name was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the lea ...

(江戸川乱歩, 1894–1965, J), pseudonym of Tarō Hirai (平井太郎) *

Martin Edwards Charles Martin Edwards (born 24 July 1945) is the former chairman of Manchester United, a position he held from 1980 until 2002. He now holds the position of honorary life president at the club and Director of Inview Technology Ltd. Biography ...

(born 1955, E) *

Åke Edwardson Åke Edwardson (born 10 March 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his ''Inspector Winter'' novels are set. Edwardson h ...

(born 1953, Sweden) * Mark Ellis (born 1953, W) *

James Ellroy Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, sta ...

(born 1948, US) * Sven Elvestad (1884–1934, Norway) *

Loren D. Estleman Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He is known for a series of crime novels featuring the investigator Amos Walker. Life and work Estleman graduated fro ...

(born 1952, US) *

Janet Evanovich Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Steph ...

(born 1943, US) *

Stanley Evans Stanley Norman Evans (1 February 1898 – 25 June 1970) was a British industrialist and Labour Party politician. He served very briefly as an Agriculture Minister in the post-war Attlee government but was forced to resign when he claimed that f ...

(born 1931, C) *

Diane Fanning Diane Fanning (born, June 21, 1950) is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels. Biography Fanning was born Diane Lynn Butcher in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from Perry Hall High School, and then Lynch ...

(born 1950, US) *

Charles Finch Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic. He has written a series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England, as well as literary fiction and numerous essays and book reviews. Life and career Finch was born in N ...

(born 1980, US) *

Paul Finch Paul Finch is an English author and scriptwriter. He began his writing career on the British television programme ''The Bill''. His early scripts were for children's animation. He has written over 300 short stories which have appeared in magazine ...

(living, E) * Shamini Flint (born 1969, Malaya/Malaysia) *

R. Barri Flowers Ronald Barri Flowers is an American writer of mystery novels and non-fiction books, as well as a criminologist. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. Early life and education Flowers was born the second of five children in Michigan. He attended Mumford ...

(born 1956, US) * Pascale Fonteneau (born 1963, F/B) * Ron Franscell (born 1957, US) *

Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, wi ...

(1920–2010, W/E) *

Antonia Fraser Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and pr ...

(born 1932, E) *

Kinky Friedman Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for ''Texas Monthly'' who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and ...

(born 1944, US) *

Gayleen Froese Gayleen Froese (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist and singer-songwriter. She is the author of two paranormal mystery novels, the urban fantasy novel "The Dominion", and the Ben Ames Casefiles series of detective novels. Her third novel, "The Girl ...

(born 1972, C) *

Jacques Futrelle Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Mac ...

(1875–1912, US)

G–H

Leighton Gage Leighton David Gage (13 May 1942 – 26 July 2013) was an author of crime fiction best known for the Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations series of novels set in Brazil. He was inspired to write these novels after spending over 20 years l ...

(1942–2013, US) *

Erle Stanley Gardner Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of crime fiction, detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of ...

(1889–1970, US) * Anthony Gilbert (1889–1973, E), pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson *

Michael Gilbert Michael Francis Gilbert (17 July 1912 – 8 February 2006) was an English solicitor and author of crime fiction. Early life and education Gilbert was born on 17 July 1912 in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England to Bernard Samuel Gilbert, a writ ...

(1912–2006, E) * Kenneth Giles (died 1974, E) * Steven Gore (living, US) * Ed Gorman (1941–2016, US) *

Sue Grafton Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" (''"A" Is for Alibi'', etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fic ...

(1940–2017, US) *

Caroline Graham Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Early life and education Graham was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire to a working-class family, and attended Nuneaton High School for Girls where her Englis ...

(born 1931, E) *

Ann Granger Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939) is a British crime writer. Granger was born in Portsmouth, England. She took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa s ...

(born 1939, E) *

Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green ...

(1846–1935, US) *

John M. Green John M. Green (born 1953) is an Australian thriller writer, publisher and company director. He is a former executive director of an investment bank and was a partner of two law firms. Previously a director of publisher ''UNSW Press'', he co-foun ...

(born 1953, A) *

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...

(1904–1991, E/Sw) *

Bryan Gruley Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is an American writer. He has shared a Pulitzer Prize for journalism and been nominated for the "first novel" Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Career Gruley studied at the University of Notre Dam ...

(born 1957, US) *

Robert van Gulik Robert Hans van Gulik (, 9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century ...

(1910–1967, Ne/Dutch E Indies) * Elizabeth Gunn (living, US) *

Batya Gur Batya Gur ( he, בתיה גור; 1 September 1947 – 19 May 2005) was an Israeli writer. Her specialty was detective fiction. She was a 1994 recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works. Biography Batya Gur was born in Tel ...

(1947–2005, Is) *

Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...

(1894–1961, US) * Cyril Hare (1900–1958, E), pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark * Kent Harrington (living, US) *

Margie Harris Margie Harris (birth and death dates unknown) was a pulp writer from 1930 to 1939. She was one of the most popular authors in the short-lived gang pulp genre. Even in an era of hardboiled crime fiction, her stories were unusually hard-edged and bitt ...

(fl. 1930s, US) * Havank (1904–1964, Ne), pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus van der Kallen * Monika Hausammann (1974, CH) *

Mo Hayder Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis. She went on to wr ...

(1962–2021, E) * J. M. Hayes (living, US) * Elizabeth Haynes (living, E) *

Tim Heald Tim Villiers Heald FRSL (28 January 1944 – 20 November 2016) was a British author, biographer, journalist and public speaker. Life and writings Heald was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, and educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Balliol ...

(1944–2016, E) *

Peter Heck Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author. His books include the "Mark Twain Mysteries"—historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective—and four boo ...

(born 1941, US) *

Georgette Heyer Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brothe ...

(1902–1974, E) *

Carl Hiaasen Carl Hiaasen (; born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. Two of his no ...

(born 1953, US) *

Keigo Higashino is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Higashino has won major Japanese awards for his books, almost twenty of which have been turned into films an ...

(東野圭吾, born 1958, J) *

George V. Higgins George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor. He authored more than thirty books, including ''Bomber's Law,'' ''Trust,'' and ''Kennedy for the De ...

(1939–1999, US) *

Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novel ...

(1921–1995, US/Sw) *

Reginald Hill Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 193612 January 2012) was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. Biography Hill was born to a "very ordinary" family ...

(1936–2012, E) *

Tony Hillerman Anthony Grove Hillerman (May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his work ...

(1925–2008, US) * John Buxton Hilton (1921–1986, E) *

Chester Himes Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include '' If He Hollers Let Him Go'', published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is be ...

(1909–1984, US/Spain) *

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) was an American novelist and short story writer. She primarily authored fiction in the hardboiled subgenre of detective novels. Life and career Born June 18, 1889, in Brooklyn, New York, Sanxay attended M ...

(1889–1955, US) *

Dorothy B. Hughes Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels ''In ...

(1904–1993, US) * Victoria Houston (living, US)

I–L

Ibn-e-Safi Ibn-e-Safi (26 July 1928 – 26 July 1980) (also spelled as Ibne Safi) ( ur, ) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad ( ur, ), a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Persian expression which litera ...

(1928–1980, Pakistan) *

Francis Iles Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. Early life and education Anthony Berkeley Cox was born 5 July ...

(1893–1971, E), pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox *

Arnaldur Indriðason Arnaldur Indriðason (pronounced ; born 28 January 1961) is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; his most popular series features the protagonist Detective Erlendur. Biography Arnaldur was born in Reykjavík on 28 January 1961, the son of ...

(born 1961, Ic) *

Michael Innes John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name and for the cri ...

(1906–1994, Sc), pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart * Kōtarō Isaka (伊坂幸太郎, born 1971, J) *

Ira Ishida is a Japanese novelist and TV commentator. After graduating from Seikei University, he worked for a number of different advertising production companies and as a freelance copywriter. In 1997, he published his first short story collection, '' ...

(石田衣良, born 1960, J) *

Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...

(1916–1965, US) *

P. D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring th ...

(1920–2014, E) * Peter James (born 1948, E) *

J. A. Jance Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery novels. She writes three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department Detective J. P. Beaumont, Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady, and for ...

(born 1944, US) * Quintin Jardine (born 1945, Sc) *

Marshall Jevons Marshall Jevons is a fictitious name, fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University (Texas), Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio, and the Unive ...

(fl. 1970s, US), pseudonym of William L. Breit (1933–2011) and Kenneth G. Elzinga (living) * He Jiahong (何家弘, born 1953, Ch) * Alper Kaya (born 1990, T) * H. R. F. Keating (1926–2011, E) *

Carolyn Keene Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In addition, the Keene pen name is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, ''River H ...

(fl. 1970s–1980s, US), syndicate pseudonym *

Faye Kellerman Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the " Peter Decker/ Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, ''The Quality of Mercy'', ''Moon Music'', and ''Straight into Darkness ...

(born 1952, US) *Jonathan Kellerman (born 1949, US) *Harry Kemelman (1908–1996, US) *Michael Kenyon (1931–2005, E) *Simon Kernick (born 1967, E) *Kim Young-ha (김영하, born 1968, S Korea) *Laurie R. King (born 1952, US) *Natsuo Kirino (桐野夏生, born 1951, J) *Kenzo Kitakata (北方謙三, born 1947, J) *Kazuhiro Kiuchi (木内一裕, born 1960, J) *Andrew Klavan (born 1954, US) *Ronald Knox (1888–1957, E) *William Kent Krueger (born 1950, US) *Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Natsuhiko Kyōgoku (born 1963, J) *Lori L. Lake (born 1960, US) *Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951, US) *Shulamit Lapid (born 1934, Is) *Gaylord Larsen (born 1932, US) *Stieg Larsson (1954–2004, Sweden) *Rejecting Jane, David Lassman (living, E) *Emma Lathen (fl. 1960s ff., US), pseudonym of Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and Martha Henissart (born 1929) *Stephen Leather (born 1956, E) *John le Carré (1931–2020, E) *Vanessa Leggett (born 1968, US) *Dennis Lehane (born 1965, US) *Anthony Lejeune (1928-2018, E) *Donna Leon (born 1942, US/Sw) *Elmore Leonard (1925–2013, US) *Gaston Leroux (1868–1927, F) *Ira Levin (1929–2007, US) *Paul Levine (born 1948, US) *Ted_Lewis_(writer), Ted Lewis (1940–1982, E) *Laura Lippman (born 1959, US) *Steven Long (born 1944, US) *E. C. R. Lorac (1894–1958, E) *Gabrielle Lord (born 1946, A) *Gayle Lynds (living, US)

M

*John D. MacDonald (1916–1986, US) *Ross Macdonald (1915–1983, US/C), pseudonym of Kenneth Millar *Shane Maloney (born 1953, A) *Henning Mankell (1948–2015, Sweden) *Petros Markaris (born 1937, T/US) *John Marquand (1893–1960, US) *Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982, NZ) *Faith Martin (living, E), pseudonym of Jacquie Walton *William Leonard Marshall, William Marshall (1944–2003, A) *Jan Mårtenson (born 1933, Sweden) *Keith Miles, Edward Marston (born 1944, W/E), pseudonym of Keith Miles *Seichō Matsumoto (松本清張, 1909–1992, J) *Peter May (writer), Peter May (born 1951, Sc) *Ed McBain (1926–2005, US) *James H. McClure, James McClure (1939–2006, SA/E) *Val McDermid (born 1955, Sc) *Dennis McDougal (born 1947, US) *Iain McDowall (living, Sc/E) *Michele McPhee (born 1970, US) *Clive Leo McNeir (living, E) *Lee Mellor (born 1982, E/C) *Nicholas Meyer (born 1945, US) *Milton Scott Michel (1916–1992, US) *Margaret Millar (1915–1994, C/US) *Zygmunt Miłoszewski (born 1976, P) *Denise Mina (born 1966, Sc) *Kanae Minato (湊かなえ, born 1973, J) *Dreda Say Mitchell (born 1965, E) *Gladys Mitchell (1901–1983, E) *Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, born 1960, J) *Gwen Moffat (born 1924, E) *Rick Mofina (living, C) *Christopher G. Moore (born 1952, C) *David Morrell (born 1943, C/US) *Mark Morris (author), Mark Morris (born 1963, E) *John Mortimer (1923–2009, E) *Patricia Moyes (1923–2000, E) *Marcia Muller (born 1944, US) *Clare Munnings (living, US), pseudonym of Jill Ker Conway and Elizabeth Topham Kennan *Margaret Murphy (writer), Margaret Murphy (born 1959, E) *Susan Murphy-Milano (died 2012, US)

N–Q

*Magdalen Nabb (1947–2007, E) *Fuminori Nakamura (中村文則, born 1977, J) *Jo Nesbø (born 1960, Norway) *Beverley Nichols (1898–1983, E) *Kyotaro Nishimura, Kyōtarō Nishimura (西村京太郎, 1930–2022, J) *Asa Nonami (乃南アサ, born 1960, J) *Jamyang Norbu (འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ, born 1949, Tibet/US) *Rintaro Norizuki, Rintarō Norizuki (法月綸太郎, born 1964, J) *Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938, US) *Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu (1939–2002, Romania) *Kido Okamoto, Kidō Okamoto (岡本綺堂, 1872–1939, J) *Celil Oker (1952–2019, T) *Go Osaka, Gō Ōsaka (逢坂剛, born 1943, J) *Arimasa Osawa, Arimasa Ōsawa (大沢在昌, born 1956, J) *Otsuichi (乙一, born 1978), pseudonym of Hirotaka Adachi (安達寛高) *Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861–1937, US) *Sara Paretsky (born 1947, US) *Edith Pargeter (1913–1995, E) *Robert B. Parker (1932–2010, US) *Surender Mohan Pathak (born 1940, In) *James Patterson (born 1947, US) *Hayford Peirce (1942–2020, US) *Don Pendleton (1927–1995, US) *Louise Penny (born 1958, C) *Anne Perry (born 1938, E) *Ellis Peters (1913–1995, E) *Mike Phillips (writer), Mike Phillips (born 1941, British Guiana/E) *Scott_Phillips_(writer), Scott Phillips (born 1961, US) *Edgar Allan Poe (1909–1949, US) *Nicholas A. Price (living, US) *Bill Pronzini (born 1943, US) *Lisa Pulitzer (born c. 1962, US) *Ellery Queen (1929 ff., US), pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee

R–S

*Melanie Raabe (born 1981, G) *Indra Soundar Rajan (born 1958, In) *Ian Rankin (born 1960, Sc) *Clayton Rawson (1906–1971, US) *Satyajit Ray (1921–1992, In) *Kathy Reichs (born 1948, US) *Ruth Rendell (1930–2015, E) *Osvaldo Reyes (born 1971, Panama) *Craig Rice (author), Craig Rice (1908–1957, US) *Lynda Suzanne Robinson (born 1951, US) *Peter Robinson (novelist), Peter Robinson (born 1950, E/C) *Elliott Roosevelt (general), Elliott Roosevelt (1910–1990, US) *Karen Rose (living, US) *Caitlin Rother (born 1962, C/US) *Hemendra Kumar Roy (1888–1963, In) *S. J. Rozan (born 1950, US) *Jane Rubino (living, US) *Ann Rule (1931–2015, US) *Craig Russell (British author), Craig Russell (living, Sc) *James Sallis (born 1944, US) *C. J. Sansom (born 1952, Sc) *Joh Sasaki (佐々木譲, born 1950, J) *Robin Sax (born 1972, US) *Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957, E) *Sandra Scoppettone (born 1936, US) *Cathy Scott (born 1950s, US) *William Matthew Scott, Will Scott (1893–1964, E) *Lisa Scottoline (born 1955, US) *

, (1899–1970, In) *Soji Shimada, Sōji Shimada (島田荘司, born 1948, J) *John Silvester (writer), John Silvester (living, A) *Georges Simenon (1903–1989, B) *Roger L. Simon (born 1943, US) *Dorothy Simpson (born 1933, E) *Elizabeth Sims (born 1957, US) *John Sladek (1937–2000, US) *Karin Slaughter (born 1971, US) *Aaron Smith (magician), Aaron Smith (born 1976, US) *Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948, S Rhodesia/E) *Anthony Neil Smith (living US) *Joan Smith (born 1953, E) *Martin Cruz Smith (born 1942, US) *Teresa Solana (born 1962, Spain) *Mehmet Murat Somer (born 1959, T) *Julia Spencer-Fleming (born 1961, US) *Suzy Spencer (living, US) *Mickey Spillane (1918–2006, US) *Nancy Springer (born 1948, US) *Rex Stout (1886–1975, US) *Linda Stratmann (born 1948, E) *Cecil Street (1884–1964, Gibraltar/E), pseudonym John Rhode *Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956, In) *Leonie Swann (born 1975, G) *Vikas Swarup (born 1960, In) *Mitzi Szereto (living, E)

T–Z

*Akimitsu Takagi (高木彬光, 1920–1995, J) *Katsuhiko Takahashi (高橋克彦, born 1947, J) *Kazuaki Takano (高野和明, born 1964, J) *Tetsuo Takashima (高嶋哲夫, born 1949, J) *Andrew Taylor (author), Andrew Taylor (born 1951, E) *Josephine Tey (1896–1952, Sc/E), pseudonym of Elizabeth MacKintosh *Johan Theorin (born 1963, Sweden) *Paul and Mabel Thorne (early 20th c., US) *Masako Togawa (戸川昌子, 1931–2016, J) *M. J. Trow (born 1949, W/E) *Margaret Truman (1924–2008, US) *James Twining (born 1972, E) *Ahmet Ümit (born 1960, T) *Lisa Unger (born 1970, US) *Arthur Upfield (1890–1964, E/A) *Andrew Vachss (1942–2021, US) *Edgar Wallace (1875–1932, E/US) *Lew Wallace (1827–1905, US) *Minette Walters (born 1949, E) *Wang Shuo (王朔, born 1958, Ch) *Sarah Ward (novelist), Sarah Ward (living, E) *Hillary Waugh (1920–2008, US) *Betty Webb (living, US) *Charlie Wells (writer), Charlie Wells (1923–2004, US) *Jeri Westerson (born 1960, US) *Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008, US) *Patricia Wentworth (1877–1961, E) *Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008, Ne) *Ethel Lina White (1876–1944, E) *Collin Wilcox (writer), Collin Wilcox (1924–1996, US) *Charles Willeford (1919–1998, US) *Leslie Wolfe (born 1967, US) *Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968, US) *Dornford Yates (1885–1960, E/S Rhodesia), pseudonym of Cecil William Mercer *Seishi Yokomizo (横溝正史, 1902–1981, J) *Hideo Yokoyama (横山秀夫, born 1957, J) *Shuichi Yoshida (吉田修一, born 1968, J) *Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野久作, 1889–1936, J) *Helen Zahavi (born 1966, E)

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D–F

G–H

I–L

M

N–Q

R–S

T–Z

See also