A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page
This is an alphabetic list of mystery writers in this "History of Mystery" web site.
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A
Edward S. Aarons
Anthony Abbot
Robert Abernathy
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Max Afford
Louisa May Alcott
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
David Alexander
H.T. Alfon
Grant Allen
H. Warner Allen
Margery Allingham
Hughes Allison
Alan Ritner Anderson
Frederick Irving Anderson
Lars Anderson
Poul Anderson
Scoular Anderson
Arnold Andrews
Anonyma (W. Stephens Hayward ?)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Arlen
Charlotte Armstrong
Isaac Asimov
Stacy Aumonier
Anne Austin
Michael Avallone
B
M.M.B.
Isaac Babel
George Bagby
H. C. Bailey
Richard M. Baker
Eustace Hale Ball
J. G. Ballard
Willis Todhunter Ballard
Edwin Balmer
Iain M. Banks
Vincent Banville
Willetta Ann Barber
Linda Barnes
Mac Barnett
Robert Barr
William E. Barrett
George Barton
Greg Bear
Jerome Beatty
K. K. Beck
Josephine Bell
George Bellairs
Robert Leslie Bellem
Arnold Bennett
Dorothy Bennett
E. C. Bentley
Phyllis Bentley
Anthony Berkeley
Norman Berrow
George A. Best
Earl Derr Biggers
Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Otto Binder
Nicholas Blake
Blanche Bloch
Robert Bloch
Lawrence G. Blochman
Kim Blundell
Harry Blyth
M. McDonnell Bodkin
Theodora Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Nelson S. Bond
Lionel Booker
Charles G. Booth
Guy N. Boothby
Jorge Luis Borges
James Skipp Borlase
Anthony Boucher
Jack Boyle
Leigh Brackett
Ray Bradbury
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Ernest Bramah
Marion Bramhall
Max Brand
Jon L. Breen
William Brittain
Lynn Brock
Stuart Brock
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Fredric Brown
Howard Browne
Georg Büchner
Bruce Buckingham
John Bude
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Gelett Burgess
Richard Burke
Rex Burns
Miles Burton
Christopher Bush
John K. Butler
C
Michael Scott Cain
Paul Cain
Sir Gilbert Campbell
John W. Campbell
Karel Capek
J. Lenivers Carew
Carol Carnac
A. Z. H. Carr
Glyn Carr
John Dickson Carr
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Robert J. Casey
Hugh B. Cave
M. E. Chaber (Ken Crossen)
Claude Chabrol
Paul Chadwick
Robert W. Chambers
C. M. Chan
Raymond Chandler
Torrey Chanslor
Thomas Chastain
Anton Chekhov
G. K. Chesterton
Charles B. Child
Agatha Christie
Dale Clark
Arthur C. Clarke
Clyde B. Clason
Anthony Clemens
Hal Clement
Barbara Cleverly
J. Storer Clouston
Belton Cobb
George M. Cohan
Octavus Roy Cohen
Stephen Paul Cohen
G.D.H. and M. Cole
Michael Collins
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Commings
Richard Connell
J. J. Connington
Merle Constiner
Mike Cooper
Bennett Copplestone (Frederick Harcourt Kitchin)
Vincent Cornier
George Harmon Coxe
Frances Crane
Bill Crenshaw
Rink Creussen
Bill Crider
Edmund Crispin
Freeman Wills Crofts
M. E. Chaber (Ken Crossen)
Tom Curry
Jacqueline Cutlip
D
Carroll John Daly
Elizabeth Daly
Glyn E. Daniel (Dilwyn Rees)
Avram Davidson
Valentine Davies
Frederick C. Davis
Norbert Davis
Rebecca Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis
Elizabeth Dean
Gregory Dean
William L. DeAndrea
C. I. Defontenay
Lillian de la Torre
Lester Dent
Jo Dereske
August Derleth
Karl W. Detzer
Philip K. Dick
Charles Dickens
John H. Dirckx
Dorothy Cameron Disney
Brice Disque Jr.
Arthur Durham Divine
Franklin W. Dixon
Dick Donovan
Richard Dowling
Arthur Conan Doyle
Theodora Du Bois
Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Alexandre Dumas
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Ralph Durand
Allan Dwan
Ruth Dwyer
George Dyer
E
Arlton Eadie
Mignon G. Eberhart
James G. Edwards
Richard Ellington
Allan Vaughan Elston
Earl W. Emerson
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Loren D. Estleman
Robert Eustace
F
J. Jefferson Farjeon
William Faulkner
William Fay
John Russell Fearn
Charles Felix
Elizabeth Ferrars / E.X. Ferrars
Louis Feuillade
Medora Field
A. Fielding
Paul Di Filippo
Gerald Findler
Howard Finney
Bruno Fischer
Rudolph Fisher
Joseph Fulling Fishman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Flanagan
G. T. Fleming-Roberts
J. S. Fletcher
Homer Eon Flint
T. T. Flynn
Rae Foley
Hulbert Footner
John P. Foran
Leslie Ford
Katherine V. Forrest
Andrew Forrester, Jr.
Mary Fortune
B.B. Fowler
Anatole France
Dick Francis
Antonia Fraser
Steve Frazee
Martha Freeman
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
R. Austin Freeman
David Frome
Susan Fry
Samuel Fuller
Timothy Fuller
Jacques Futrelle
G
Émile Gaboriau
Dorothy Gardiner
Erle Stanley Gardner
Garrido
Randall Garrett
William Campbell Gault
Hugo Gernsback
Cromwell Gibbons
Walter Gibson
Anthony Gilbert
W. S. Gilbert
Rufus Gillmore
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charles G. Givens
Peter Godfrey
Joseph Gollomb
George Goodchild
Alan Gordon
Dan Gordon
Carol Gorman
Sue Grafton
Bruce Graham
Zenith Gray
Alan Green
Anna Katherine Green
Lois H. Gresh
Arthur Griffiths
John Grisham
Michael E. Grost
Frank Gruber
Ursula K. Le Guin
Elizabeth Gunn
H
Christopher Hale
Edward Everett Hale
Clifford Halifax
Vincent Hall
Brett Halliday
William Hallstead
Paul Halter
Edmond Hamilton
Dashiell Hammett
Thomas W. Hanshew
Cyril Hare
Charles L. Harness
Curtis Harrington
Joseph Harrington
C. William Harrison
Henry Sydnor Harrison
Michael Harrison
Steven F. Havill
Brenda Haw
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Howard Haycraft
Anonyma (W. Stephens Hayward ?)
Rolf Heimann
Robert Heinlein
Ronald Henderson
O. Henry
Georgette Heyer
George Hibbard
Clifford Hicks
Yokoyama Hideo
E.W. Hildick
Headon Hill
Katherine Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Donald Bayne Hobart
Edward D. Hoch
Steve Hockensmith
William Hope Hodgson
E.T.A. Hoffmann
James W. Holden
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Geoffrey Homes
Pauline E. Hopkins
E.W. Hornung
Anthony Horowitz
Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain
Geoffrey Household
Clark Howard
Fred Hoyle
W.H. Hudson
Dorothy B. Hughes
Fergus Hume
Aldous Huxley
Elspeth Huxley
C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne
I
Jack Iams
Michael Innes
Patrick Irelan
J
Michael Jahn
Herbert Jenkins
Edgar Jepson
F. Tennyson Jesse
Lamont Johnson
Frances K. Judd
K
Hugh MacNair Kahler
Victor Kalin
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Rob Kantner
MacKinlay Kantor
Phil Karlson
Erik Kastner
Herbert Keen
Day Keene
Faraday Keene
Donald Keith
Clarence Budington Kelland
Mary Kelly
Toni L. P. Kelner
Harry Kemelman
Baynard Kendrick
Richard Keverne
Thomas Kindon
C. Daly King
Frank King
Rufus King
Rudyard Kipling
James A. Kirch
Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin
Bennett Copplestone (Frederick Harcourt Kitchin)
David Knadler
Clifford Knight
Ronald Knox
Judith Lea Koretsky
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Frederick Arnold Kummer
Aleksandr Kuprin
Michael Kurland
Akira Kurosawa
L
Ed Lacy
Oliver La Farge
R.A. Lafferty
Fritz Lang
John Lantigua
Lawrence Lariar
Maurice Leblanc
Hannah Lees
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Susannah Leigh
Murray Leinster
Stanislaw Lem
Elizabeth Lemarchand
William Le Queux
Fred C. Levon
Joseph H. Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Martin Limón
Abraham Lincoln
M. Lindsay
J. Lane Linklater
Liu Cixin
Frances and Richard Lockridge
Jack London
Julius Long
E.C.R. Lorac
H.P. Lovecraft
Glenn Low
Richard A. Lupoff
Lawrence L. Lynch
Francis Lynde
M
Philip MacDonald
Harold MacGrath
William MacHarg
Wendy Madgwick
Catherine Mambretti
Lou Manfredo
Anthony Mann
Phil Mann
David X Manners
William Manners
Virgil Markham
Margaret Maron
Ngaio Marsh
E.C. Marshall
Charles Martel
A. E. Martin
Tom Marvin
A. E. W. Mason
Whit Masterson
Harold Q. Masur
Seicho Matsumoto
H. H. Matteson
Brander Matthews
W. Somerset Maugham
D. B. McCandless
Helen McCloy
Horace McCoy
Johnston McCulley
Patricia McGerr
Donald McGibeny
William P. McGivern
John T. McIntyre
Howard McLellan
L. T. Meade
Roi Cooper Megrue
Alan Melville
Herman Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville
Patrick Merrell
Nicholas Meyer
China Miéville
Earl Schenck Miers / David William Meredith
Wade Miller
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A. A. Milne
Harry Miner
Vincente Minnelli
Gladys Mitchell
Cleveland L. Moffett
Ferenc Molnar
Charles Edward Montague
Sir Thomas More
Nigel Morland
Christopher Morley
Dermot Morrah
Arthur Morrison
Marcia Muller
Robert Mulligan
N
Anne Nash
Shizuko Natsuki
Frederick Nebel
William J. Neidig
Hugh Lawrence Nelson
Ray Nelson
Joseph M. Newman
Meredith Nicholson
Helen Nielsen
Hume Nisbet
Kyotaro Nishimura
Norizuki Rintaro
O'Neil De Noux
O
Silvina Ocampo
Lenore Glen Offord
Harvey J. O'Higgins
Nicholas Olde
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Rodrigues Ottolengui
P
Frank L. Packard
Norvell Page
Stuart Palmer
Q. Patrick
Bruce D. Pelletier
Max Pemberton
Rupert Penny
Hugh Pentecost
Sara Peretsky
Barry Perowne
Ellis Peters
Herman Petersen
Roland Phillips
Eden Phillpotts
Nancy Pickard
Charles Felton Pidgin
John Pinkney
C. L. Pirkis
Ernest M. Poate
Edgar Allan Poe
Zelda Popkin
Arthur Porges
Melville Davisson Post
James Powell
Richard S. Prather
E. Hoffmann Price
Bill Pronzini
Milton M. Propper
Ernest Robertson Punshon
Q
Ellery Queen
Patrick Quentin
Leslie Quirk
R
S. S. Rafferty
Robert J. Randisi
Rick Raphael
Clayton Rawson
Victor K. Ray
Angus Reach
Dilwyn Rees (Glyn E. Daniel)
Arthur B. Reeve
Robert Reeves
Seeley Regester
Helen Reilly
Ruth Rendell
Herbert Resnicow
John Rhode
Craig Rice
Elmer Rice
Allen Richards
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jack Ritchie
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
Sax Rohmer
Edward Ronns
Kelley Roos
Forrest Rosaire
J.-H. Rosny
Holly Roth
William Rough
Jennifer Rowe
S. J. Rozan
Damon Runyon
S
Rafael Sabatini
Richard Sale
Robert Sampson
Carl McK. Saunders
Dorothy L. Sayers
R.F. Schabelitz
Benjamin M. Schutz
George S. Schuyler
Sutherland Scott
Will Scott
Hank Searls
Mabel Seeley
Reuben Jennings Shay
Walt Sheldon
Eric Shepherd
Juanita Sheridan
Matthew Phipps Shiel
Soji Shimada
Don Siegel
Clifford D. Simak
Georges Simenon
George R. Sims
Fiona Sinclair
Robert Siodmak
Frederick Skerry
John Sladek
Cordwainer Smith
H. Greenhough Smith
Shelley Smith
William F. Smith
Juliet Snape and Charles Snape
Donald J. Sobol
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Christopher St. John Sprigg
Dan A. Sproul
H. de Vere Stacpoole
Clinton H. Stagg
Fay Grissom Stanley
Richard Starnes
Vincent Starrett
Harrison R. Steeves
Aaron Marc Stein
John Steinbeck
Lincoln Steffens
B. K. Stevens
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Frank R. Stockton
Hampton Stone
Rex Stout
Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (John Stephen Strange)
T. S. Stribling
Joseph Szebenyei
T
Akimitsu Takagi
Hake Talbot
J. M. Taylor
Matt Taylor
Tom Taylor
William Teason
Darwin L. Teilhet
Josephine Tey
Lee Thayer
Dietrich Thede
Theodore L. Thomas
Sir Basil Thomson
James Thurber
Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett (John Stephen Strange)
Theodore Tinsley
Gerald Tomlinson
Lillian de la Torre
Steven Torres
Jacques Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur
Lawrence Treat
Rhoda Truax
Jenny Tyler
U
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur W. Upfield
V
S. S. Van Dine
A. E. van Vogt
H. de Vere Stacpoole
Vernor Vinge
W
C. C. Waddell
Henry Wade
Sidney Waldo
Edgar Wallace
R. A. J. Walling
Ruth Sawtell Wallis
Raoul Walsh
Thomas Walsh
Donald Wandrei
James Warren
James Lincoln Warren
"Waters"
Jack Webb
Robert Weinberg
James Howard Wellard
Edward Wellen
Orson Welles
Carolyn Wells
Helen Wells
Roland West
Ethel Lina White
Hal White
Victor L. Whitechurch
Raoul Whitfield
Mike Wiecek
Percival Wilde
Ellen Wilkinson
John Willard
Arthur Williams
Ben Ames Williams
John Babbington Williams
Valentine Williams
Edmund Wilson
Horatio Winslow
Henry Winterfeld
Clifford Witting
P. G. Wodehouse
Gene Wolfe
William Almon Wolff
Mrs. Henry Wood
Ted Wood
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
R.C. Woodthorpe
Cornell Woolrich
Eric Wright
Philip Wylie
Anthony Wynne
Y
James Yaffe
Dornford Yates
Z
Israel Zangwill
Roger Zelazny
Mark Richard Zubro
Authors without links are (hopefully) in upcoming material, not yet at web site.