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Aaron Smith (magician)
Aaron Smith (born 1976) is an American writer, illustrator, and inventor of magic tricks.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Akimitsu Takagi
, was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Alper Kaya
Alper Kaya was born in 1990 in Ankara.
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Andrew Klavan
Andrew Klavan (born July 13, 1954) is an American writer and political commentator.
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Andrew Taylor (author)
Andrew Taylor (born 14 October 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling The American Boy and The Ashes of London.
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Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachss (born October 19, 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.
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Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is an English crime-writer.
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Ann Granger
Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939) is a British crime writer.
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Ann Rule
Ann Rae Rule (née Stackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American true crime author of The Stranger Beside Me, about Rule's co-worker, the serial killer Ted Bundy.
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Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist.
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Anne Perry
Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series.
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Anthony Berkeley Cox
Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer.
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Anthony Gilbert (author)
Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (15 February 1899 – 9 December 1973), was an English crime writer who was a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson.
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Anthony Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith is a mystery/crime fiction writer who has had over thirty of his short stories published in literary magazines and crime writing zines, and has also published numerous novels.
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Anthony Perry
Anthony Perry (c. 1760– 21 July 1798), known as the "screeching general" was one of the most important leaders of the United Irish Wexford rebels during the 1798 rebellion.
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Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
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Arimasa Osawa
is a Japanese writer of hardboiled and thriller.
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Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indriðason (pronounced; born 1961) is an Icelandic writer of crime fiction; most of his books feature the protagonist Detective Erlendur.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Arthur Upfield
Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 12 February 1964) was an English/Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine.
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Asa Nonami
is a Japanese crime fiction and horror writer.
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Ash Lieb
Ash Lieb (born 22 August 1982) is an Australian artist, writer and comedian, known for his surreal humour and art.
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Åke Edwardson
Åke Edwardson (born March 10, 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.
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Barbara Colley
Barbara Ann Logan Colley (born July 26, 1947) is a romance and mystery novelist based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Bernard Capes
Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (30 August 1854 – 2 November 1918) was an English author.
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Betty Webb
Betty Webb is a former journalist and the author of a series of detective stories set in Arizona.
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Beverley Nichols
John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 – 15 September 1983) was an English author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker.
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Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction.
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Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin (Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили; გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვილი) (born May 20, 1956), a Russian writer of Georgian and Jewish origin.
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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.
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Bryan Gruley
Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is an American writer.
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Burl Barer
Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host.
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C. J. Sansom
Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels.
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Caitlin Rother
Caitlin Rother (born December 6, 1962) is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction, true crime American-Canadian author and journalist who lives in San Diego, California.
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Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American writer.
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Carol Anne Davis
Carol Anne Davis (born 1961 in Dundee, Scotland), is a Scottish crime novelist and a writer on crime.
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Carol Higgins Clark
Carol Higgins Clark (born July 28, 1956) is an American mystery author and actress.
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Caroline Graham
Caroline Graham (born 17 July 1931) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
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.
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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.
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Catherine Crier
Catherine Jean Crier (born November 6, 1954) is an American journalist and author of A Deadly Game and The Case Against Lawyers.
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Cathy Scott
Cathleen "Cathy" Scott (born 1950s in San Diego, California) is a Los Angeles Times bestselling American true-crime writer and investigative journalist best known for penning the biographies and true crime books The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, both bestsellers in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Cecil Street
Cecil John Charles Street, MC, OBE (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), who was known to his colleagues, family and friends as John Street, began his military career as an artillery officer in the British army.
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Charles Finch
Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic, notable for his series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England and his prize-winning criticism.
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Charles Willeford
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer.
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Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was a black American writer.
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Chin Shunshin
(18 February 192421 January 2015) was a Taiwanese-Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic.
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Chris Culver
Chris Culver is the pen name of an American author of crime fiction and thrillers.
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Christopher G. Moore
Christopher G. Moore (born 8 July 1952) is a Canadian writer of twenty-seven novels, six works of non-fiction,editor of three anthologies, and author of four radio dramas.
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Clare Munnings
Clare Munnings is the pen name for two American mystery authors, Jill Ker Conway (former president of Smith College) and Elizabeth Topham Kennan (alumna and former president of Mount Holyoke College).
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Clayton Rawson
Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician.
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Clive Leo McNeir
Clive Leo McNeir is a linguist and lexicographer, and the author of some half-dozen crime novels, set mainly on the inland waterways of Britain.
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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, from 1987 to 2000.
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Collin Wilcox (writer)
Collin Wilcox (September 21, 1924 – July 12, 1996) was an American mystery writer who published 30 books in 30 years.
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Cornell Woolrich
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
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Craig Russell (British author)
Craig Russell, also known as Christopher Galt, is a British-born novelist and short story writer.
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Crime fiction
Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.
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Cyril Hare
Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English judgeHis Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, Aug 26, 1958; pg.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.
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David Morrell
David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.
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Deb Baker
Deb Baker (born 1953) is an American mystery writer from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, who has created three mystery series.
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Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum (born October 19, 1954) is an American journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Denise Mina
Denise Mina (born 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright.
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Dennis McDougal
Dennis McDougal (born November 25, 1947) is an American author and newspaper journalist.
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Desmond Bagley
Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was a British journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers.
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Detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
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Diane Fanning
Diane Fanning is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels.
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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.
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Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England.
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Don Pendleton
Donald Eugene "Don" Pendleton (December 12, 1927 – October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction books, best known for his creation of the fictional character The Executioner: Mack Bolan.
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Donald E. Westlake
Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit.
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Donna Leon
Donna Leon (born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
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Doris Miles Disney
Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer.
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Dornford Yates
Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.
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Dorothy Simpson
Dorothy Preece Simpson (born 20 June 1933, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales) is an English-language writer of mystery novels, and a winner of a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain.
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Dreda Say Mitchell
Dreda Say Mitchell (born 1965) is a British novelist, broadcaster, journalist and freelance education consultant.
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E. C. R. Lorac
Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) (who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac) was a British crime writer.
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Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.
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Ed McBain
Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.
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Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley
E.
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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.
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Edogawa Ranpo
, better known by the pseudonym, also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction.
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Edward Attard
Edward (Eddie) Attard was born in Sliema in 1947 and received his education at the Lyceum.
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Elizabeth Gunn (author)
Elizabeth Gunn is an American author of mystery novels.
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Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer)
Elizabeth Haynes is a British writer of crime fiction.
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Elizabeth Sims
Elizabeth Sims (born September 30, 1957) is an American writer, journalist, and contributing editor at Writer's Digest magazine.
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a crime fiction house name created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990) was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces.
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Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
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Emma Lathen
Emma Lathen is the pen name of two American businesswomen: economic analyst Mary Jane Latsis (July 12, 1927 – October 29, 1997) and attorney Martha Henissart (born 1929).
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Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre.
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Eric Jerome Dickey
Eric Jerome Dickey (born July 7, 1961) is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.
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Ernest Bornemann
Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic.
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Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah (20 March 186827 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author.
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Ernest Elmore
Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957) was an English theatre producer and director, and writer of crime and fantasy novels.
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Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based.
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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 non-series books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music and Straight into Darkness.
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Fredric Brown
Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts FRSA (1 June 1879 – 11 April 1957) was an Anglo-Irish mystery author during the golden age of detective fiction.
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Fuminori Nakamura
is the pseudonym of a Japanese author.
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G. D. Baum
G.
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.
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Gabrielle Lord
Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 26 February 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.
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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
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Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is an American author.
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Gayleen Froese
Gayleen Froese (born 1972 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a mystery novelist, and singer/songwriter from Western Canada.
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Gaylord Larsen
Gaylord Larsen (born January 4, 1932) is an American crime writer.
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George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, who settled in the Isle of Man on retirement.
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George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor.
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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer.
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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist.
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Gladys Mitchell
Gladys Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective novels.
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Go Osaka
is a Japanese writer of crime fiction, hardboiled, thriller, spy fiction and western fiction.
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Gosho Aoyama
is a Japanese manga artist.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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Gwen Moffat
Gwen Mary Moffat (née Goddard; born 3 July 1924) is a British climber and writer.
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H. C. Asterley
Hugh Cecil Asterley (born 10 May 1902 - 1973) was a British author and colonial administrator, who wrote crime and mystery stories and novels, usually with a south-east Asian setting, as H. C. Asterley.
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H. C. Bailey
Henry Christopher Bailey (1878–1961) was an English author of detective fiction.
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H. R. F. Keating
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.
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Hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).
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Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers.
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Harry Kemelman
Harry Kemelman (November 24, 1908 — December 15, 1996) was an American mystery writer and a professor of English.
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Havank
Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen (February 19, 1904 – June 22, 1964), was a Dutch writer, journalist, and translator.
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Hayford Peirce
Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942 in Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers.
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Helen Zahavi
Helen Zahavi (born 1966) is an English novelist and screenwriter born and educated in London.
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Hemendra Kumar Roy
Hemendra Kumar Roy (হেমেন্দ্রকুমার রায়) (2 September 1888– 18 April 1963) was an Indian Bengali writer noted for his contribution to the early development of the genre of children's literature in the language.
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Henning Mankell
Henning Georg Mankell (3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.
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Hideo Yokoyama
is a Japanese novelist.
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Hillary Waugh
Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 – December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist.
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Iain McDowall
Iain McDowall is a British crime fiction author.
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Ian Rankin
Ian James Rankin, (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
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Indra Soundar Rajan
Indra Soundar Rajan (இந்திரா சௌந்தர்ராஜன், born.) is the pen name of P. Soundar Rajan, a well-known Tamil author of short stories, novels, television serials, and screenplays.
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Ira Levin
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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J. I. M. Stewart
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic.
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J. J. Barrie
J.
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J. M. Hayes
J.M. (Mike) Hayes is an American author of mystery novels.
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Jacques Futrelle
Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer.
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Jake Arnott
Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm and six other novels.
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James Crumley
James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008)Local author James Crumley dies at 68 url.
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James Ellroy
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.
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James H. McClure
James Howe McClure (9 October 1939, Johannesburg, South Africa – 17 June 2006, Oxford, England) was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa.
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James Hadley Chase
James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer.
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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.
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James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist.
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James Patterson
James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist.
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James Twining
James Twining (born 13 December 1972) is a British thriller writer.
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Jan Burke
Jan Burke is an author of novels and short stories.
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Jan Mårtenson
Jan Mårtenson, born 14 February 1933 in Uppsala, is a Swedish diplomat who is also famous as the author of some fifty Swedish crime novels.
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Jane Casey
Jane Casey is an Irish-born author of crime novels.
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Jane Rubino
Jane Rubino is an author of mystery novels set in New Jersey, featuring entertainment reporter ‘Cat’ Fortunati Austen as an accidental detective.
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Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer.
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Janwillem van de Wetering
Jan Willem Lincoln "Janwillem" van de Wetering (February 12, 1931 in Rotterdam – July 4, 2008 in Blue Hill, Maine) was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch.
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Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer.
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Jeri Westerson
Jeri Westerson (born 1960) is an American novelist of medieval mysteries, historical novels, and paranormal novels, along with LGBT mysteries under the pen name Haley Walsh.
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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.
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Jim Thompson (writer)
James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
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Jirō Akagawa
is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø (born 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian writer, musician, and former economist and reporter.
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Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born 27 August 1953) is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hacked Off.
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Joe R. Lansdale
Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor.
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Johan Theorin
Johan Theorin is a journalist and author, born in 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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John Baker (author)
John Baker is a British author.
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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.
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John Buxton Hilton
John Buxton Hilton (1921–1986) was a British crime writer.
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John Creasey
John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
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John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.
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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 using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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John Dunning (true crime author)
John Dunning (1918 – March 1990) was a journalist and true crime author.
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John E. Douglas
John Edward Douglas (born June 18, 1945) is a retired special agent and unit chief in the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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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.
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John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels.
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John M. Green
John M. Green (Australian author) (born 1953) is an Australian thriller writer, publisher and company director.
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John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.
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John P. Marquand
John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer.
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John Silvester (writer)
John Silvester is an Australian journalist and crime writer.
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John Sladek
John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.
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Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels.
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Jordan Dane
Jordan Dane (born 1953) is a romantic thriller young adult fiction novelist.
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Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
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Julia Spencer-Fleming
Julia Spencer-Fleming (born 1961page 240, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press) is an American novelist of Mystery fiction.
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Kanae Minato
is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
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Karen Rose
Karen Rose (born Karen Rose Hafer in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American romantic suspense novelist.
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Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer, whose first novel Blindsighted (2001) became an international success, was published in almost 30 languages, and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001.
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Kate Charles
Kate Charles (born 1950) is an American crime writer.
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Kathryn Casey
Kathryn Casey is an American writer of mystery novels and non-fiction books.
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Kathy Reichs
Kathleen Joan Toelle Reichs (born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic.
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Katsuhiko Takahashi
is a Japanese writer of mystery, horror, science fiction and historical fiction.
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Kazuaki Takano
is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers.
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Kazuhiro Kiuchi
is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist.
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Kōtarō Isaka
is a Japanese author of mystery fiction.
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Keigo Higashino
is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels.
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Keith Miles
Keith Miles (born 1940) is a writer of historical fiction and mystery novels.
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Kenneth Giles
Kenneth Giles was a British crime writer.
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Kent Harrington
Kent Harrington is an American author of Fiction and Thrillers.
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Kenzo Kitakata
is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels.
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Kido Okamoto
was a Japanese author.
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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 Mark Twain.
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Kyotaro Nishimura
is a Japanese writer of mystery stories.
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Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American author of detective fiction.
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Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King (born September 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her detective fiction.
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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.
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Lee Child
James D. "Jim" 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.
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Lee Mellor
Lee Mellor (born August 4, 1982 in Chester, England) is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, criminologist and alternative country musician distinguished by his intricate lyrics and growly vocal stylings.
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Leighton Gage
Leighton David Gage (May 13, 1942 – July 26, 2013) was an author of crime fiction best known for the Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations series of novels set in Brazil.
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Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann (b. 1975 Dachau near Munich, Germany) is the nom de plume of a German crime writer.
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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.
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Leslie Wolfe
Leslie Wolfe (born 1967) is a bestselling American novelist.
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Lester Dent
Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959) was an American pulp-fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage.
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Lew Wallace
Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.
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Lisa Pulitzer
Lisa Pulitzer (born c. 1964) is an American author and journalist.
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Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline (born July 1, 1955) is an American author of legal thrillers.
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Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger (born Lisa Miscione, April 26, 1970) is an American author of contemporary fiction.
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List of Asian crime fiction writers
The following is a list of Asian crime fiction writers whose works have been translated into one or more European languages.
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List of mystery writers
This is a list of mystery writers: See also—External links.
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List of thriller writers
This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists.
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Lists of writers
The following are lists of writers.
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Liza Cody
Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London), is an English crime fiction writer.
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Loren D. Estleman
Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction.
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Lori L. Lake
Lori L. Lake (born February 9, 1960) is an Oregon writer, teacher, speaker, and author of mystery, drama, romance, and general fiction, most of which is about lesbian protagonists.
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Louise Penny
Louise Penny (born 1958) is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec.
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Lynda Suzanne Robinson
Lynda Suzanne Robinson (born July 6, 1951 in Amarillo, Texas) is an American writer, author of romance (under the name Suzanne Robinson) and mystery novels (under the name Lynda S. Robinson).
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M. J. Trow
Meirion James Trow (born 16 October 1949) is a writer who writes under the name M. J. Trow.
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Magdalen Nabb
Magdalen Nabb (16 January 1947 – 18 August 2007) was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.
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Marcia Muller
Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944) is an American author of fictional mystery and thriller novels.
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Margaret Murphy (writer)
Margaret Murphy (born 14 April 1959) is a British crime writer.
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Margaret Truman
Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (February 17, 1924 – January 29, 2008), also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel, was an American classical soprano, actress, journalist, radio and television personality, writer, and New York socialite.
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Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
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Margie Harris
Margie Harris (birth and death dates unknown) was a pulp writer from 1930-39.
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Mark Billingham
Mark Philip David Billingham (born 2 July 1961)"BILLINGHAM, Mark Philip David," in Who's Who 2009 (London: A & C Black, 2008); online ed., (Oxford: OUP, 2008), http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U247048 (accessed 4 January 2009).
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Mark Ellis (Welsh author)
Mark Ellis (born 27 September 1953) is a thriller writer from Swansea and former barrister and entrepreneur.
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Mark Morris (author)
Mark Morris (born 1 January 1963) is an English author known for his series of horror novels, although he has also written several novels based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who.
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Marshall Jevons
Marshall Jevons is a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively.
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Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942) is an American mystery novelist.
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Martin Edwards (author)
Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955), whose full name is Kenneth Martin Edwards, is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.
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Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (née Higgins; born December 24, 1927), known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels.
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Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer.
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Melanie Raabe
Melanie Raabe (born 1 August 1981 in Jena) is a German novelist and journalist.
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Michael Collins (author)
Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (January 15, 1924 – August 19, 2005), an American author who primarily wrote mystery fiction.
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Michael Connelly
Michael 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.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter, film director and producer best known for his work in the science fiction, thriller, and medical fiction genres.
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Michael Dibdin
Michael Dibdin (21 March 1947 – 30 March 2007) was a British crime writer who was famous for inventing Aurelio Zen, the principal character in 11 crime novels set in Italy.
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Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert CBE (July 17, 1912 – February 8, 2006) was a British lawyer and author of crime fiction mysteries.
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Michael Kenyon
Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels.
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Michele McPhee
Michele R. McPhee (born April 8, 1970) is an American author, talk radio host, and journalist from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.
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Mike Phillips (writer)
Michael Angus "Mike" Phillips, OBE (born 8 August 1941), is a British writer and broadcast journalist of Guyanese descent.
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Milton Scott Michel
Milton Scott Michel (October 23, 1916 – July 8, 1992) was an American crime fiction writer and playwright.
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Minette Walters
Minette Walters (born 26 September 1949) is an English crime writer.
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Mitzi Szereto
Mitzi Szereto is a British author, blogger, and web TV entrepreneur.
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Miyuki Miyabe
Miyuki Miyabe (宮部 みゆき Miyabe Miyuki, born December 23, 1960) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and young adult literature.
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Mo Hayder
Mo Hayder (born 1962) is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.
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Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.
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Nancy Springer
Nancy Connor Springer (born 1948 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction.
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Natsuhiko Kyogoku
is a Japanese mystery writer, who is a member of Ōsawa Office.
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Natsuo Kirino
is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
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Ngaio Marsh
Dame Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director.
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Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After.
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Osvaldo Reyes
Osvaldo Reyes Herrera (May 26, 1919 – December 23, 2007) was a Chilean artist who lived in Chile, Mexico, and Canada.
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Otsuichi
is the pen name of, born 1978.
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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 crime writer.
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P. J. Brooke
P.J. Brooke is the writing name of Philip James O'Brien and Jane Brooke.
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P. T. Deutermann
Peter T. "P.T." Deutermann (born December 27, 1941) is an American writer of mystery, police procedural and thriller novels.
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Paolo Brera
Paolo Alberto Brera (born 16 September 1949) is an Italian novelist and journalist.
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Pascale Fonteneau
Pascale Fonteneau (born April 29, 1963) is a French-born journalist and novelist in Belgium.
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Pat Brown (criminal profiler)
Pat Brown (born 1955) is an American writer, criminal profiler and commentator.
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Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is a contemporary American crime writer.
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Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels based on the character of Tom Ripley.
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Patricia Moyes
Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, also known as Patricia Moyes (19 January 1923 – 2 August 2000) was a British mystery writer.
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Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth (born Dora Amy Elles; 10 November 1877 – 28 January 1961) was a British crime fiction writer.
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Paul Cleave
Paul Cleave (born 10 December 1974) is an author from New Zealand.
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Paul Finch
Paul Finch is an English author and scriptwriter.
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Paul Levine
Paul Levine (born January 9, 1948) is an American author of crime fiction, particularly legal thrillers.
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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.
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Peter Heck
Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author.
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Peter James (writer)
Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international British writer of crime fiction.
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Peter May (writer)
Peter May (born 20 December 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer.
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Peter Robinson (novelist)
Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is an English-Canadian crime writer.
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Petros Markaris
Petros Márkaris (Πέτρος Μάρκαρης; born 1 January 1937 in Istanbul) is a Greek writer of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos.
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Philip R. Craig
Philip R. Craig (December 10, 1933 – May 8, 2007) was a writer known for his Martha's Vineyard mysteries.
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Quintin Jardine
Quintin Jardine (born 1945) is a Scottish author of three series of crime novels, featuring the fictional characters Bob Skinner, Oz Blackstone, and Primavera Blackstone.
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R. Barri Flowers
R.
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Ranj Dhaliwal
"Ranj Dhaliwal, (Punjabi: ਰਣਜ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ) (born 1976/1977) is a Canadian author.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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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.
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Rejecting Jane
"Rejecting Jane" is the title of a 2007 article by British author David Lassman.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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Rick Mofina
Rick Mofina is a Canadian author of crime fiction and thriller novels.
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Rintaro Norizuki
is a Japanese mystery/crime writer.
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Robert B. Parker
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre.
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Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.
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Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Robert Crais
Robert Crais (pronounced to rhyme with 'chase') (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction.
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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.
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Robert van Gulik
Robert Hans van Gulik (August 9, 1910 – September 24, 1967) was an 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 Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
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Robin Cook (American novelist)
Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940, in New York City)Stookey, Lorena Laura (1996).
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Robin Sax
Robin Ann Sax (born 1972) is an author, legal analyst, victim advocate, radio host, an HLN contributor, and a former prosecutor for the State of California, County of Los Angeles and Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
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Rodrigues Ottolengui
Rodrigues Ottolengui (March 15, 1861 - July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent.
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Roger L. Simon
Roger Lichtenberg Simon (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
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Ron Franscell
Ron Franscell (born January 29, 1957) is an American journalist, novelist and true crime writer best known for the true account The Darkest Night about the 1973 crimes against two childhood friends in the small community where Franscell grew up.
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Ronald Knox
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian and author of detective stories.
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Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald is the main pseudonym that was used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983).
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Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
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S. J. Rozan
S.
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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 an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.
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Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski.
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Sarah Andrews (author)
Sarah Andrews is an American geologist and author of twelve science-based mystery novels and several short stories.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
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Seichō Matsumoto
was a Japanese writer.
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Seishi Yokomizo
was a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.
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Shane Maloney
Shane Maloney (born 1953) born in Hamilton, Victoria is a Melbourne author best known as the creator of the Murray Whelan series of crime novels.
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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a Bengali writer.
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Sheila Connolly
Sheila Connolly (born 1950) is a mystery writer and author of three mystery series published by Berkley Prime Crime.
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Shuichi Yoshida
(born 14 September 1968), is a Japanese novelist.
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Simon Beckett
Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England) is a British journalist and author.
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Simon Brett
Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British writer of detective fiction and radio producer.
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Simon Kernick
Simon Kernick (born 25 January 1966 in Slough, Berkshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters Amy and Rachel.
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Soji Shimada
is a Japanese mystery writer.
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Stacy Dittrich
Stacy Dittrich (born 2 March 1973), a former police detective from Ohio, is an American mystery novelist and true crime author.
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Stanley Evans (writer)
Stanley Evans (born 1931) is a full-time Canadian writer who has been a soldier, a surveyor, and deep-sea fisherman.
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Stephen Dobyns
Stephen J. Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI.
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Stephen Leather
Stephen Leather (born 1956) is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton.
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Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism.
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Steven Gore
Steven Gore is an American thriller writer and author of the Graham Gage (Final Target, 2010, Absolute Risk, 2010, and Power Blind, 2012) and Harlan Donnally (Act of Deceit, 2011, and A Criminal Defense, July 30, 2013) series published by HarperCollins.
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Steven Long
Steven Hayward Long (born July 17, 1944), from Houston, Texas, is an American journalist, magazine publisher and author of three true crime books and one novel.
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Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer.
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Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.
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Surender Mohan Pathak
Surender Mohan Pathak (सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक, ਸੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਮੋਹਨ ਪਾਠਕ) (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran, in Tarn Taran district near Amritsar, in the Majha region of Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit.
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Susan Murphy-Milano
Susan Murphy-Milano (born February 28 died October 28, 2012) was an American nonfiction author, violence expert and host of the weekly radio crime show "Time's Up" and author of a book by the same title.
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Susan Wittig Albert
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.
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Suzy Spencer
Suzy Spencer is an American author and journalist who made the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list in 1998 with her first true crime book Wasted.
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Sven Elvestad
Sven Elvestad (6 September 1884 – 18 December 1934) was a Norwegian journalist and author.
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Taku Ashibe
is a Japanese mystery writer.
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Tetsuo Takashima
Tetsuo Takashima (高嶋 哲夫 Takashima Tetsuo, born July 7, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction.
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The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.
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Tim Dorsey
Tim Dorsey (born January 25, 1961) is an American novelist.
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Tim Heald
Tim Villiers Heald FRSL (28 January 1944 – 20 November 2016) was a British author, biographer, journalist and public speaker.
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Tony Hillerman
Anthony Grove "Tony" Hillerman (May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels.
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True crime
True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.
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Val McDermid
Val McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill.
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Vanessa Leggett
Vanessa Leggett (née Levrier; born May 18, 1968) is a freelance journalist, author, lecturer and First Amendment advocate who was jailed by the U.S. Justice Department for 168 days for protecting sources and research notes for an independent book about a federal murder-for-hire case.
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Victoria Houston
Victoria Houston is an American writer.
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Whodunit
A whodunit or whodunnit (a colloquial elision of "Who done it?" or "Who did it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the audience is given the opportunity to engage in the same process of deduction as the protagonist throughout the investigation of a crime.
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William Deverell
William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937) is a Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer.
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William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger is an American novelist and crime writer, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O'Connor, which are set mainly in Minnesota.
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William Leonard Marshall
William Marshall (or William Leonard Marshall) (1944-2003) is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series.
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William Matthew Scott
William Matthew Scott (born Leeds 30 September 1893; d. Herne Bay 7 May 1964), pen name Will Scott, was a British author of stories and books for adults and children, published from 1920 to 1965.
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Yukito Ayatsuji
, who writes under his pen name, is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror.
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Yumeno Kyūsaku
was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Taidō.
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Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Zygmunt Miłoszewski (born May 8, 1976 in Warsaw) is an award-winning Polish writer.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crime_writers
