Mystery & Crime Writers Codexery

A source-cited reference to mystery & crime writers

Mystery & Crime Writers (24)

• Arthur Conan Doyle — Scottish writer and physician, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
• Agatha Christie — English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections
• Dashiell Hammett — The dean of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction.
• Raymond Chandler — The hardboiled detective's poet laureate.
• Erle Stanley Gardner — The best-selling American author of the 20th century, creator of Perry Mason.
• G. K. Chesterton — English writer known for wit, paradox, and Christian apologetics.
• Georges Simenon — Belgian writer who created detective Jules Maigret.
• Dorothy L. Sayers — English crime novelist and one of the four Queens of Crime.
• Dick Francis — British steeplechase jockey turned crime writer, known for horse-racing thrillers.
• Edgar Wallace — Prolific British thriller writer and screenwriter of King Kong.
• Frédéric Dard — Best-selling French author known for crime, humor, and the San-Antonio series.
• Gaston Leroux — French journalist and author of detective fiction.
• Shirley Jackson — Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American author born on December 14, 1916, in San Francisco, California, and raised in…
• Sue Grafton — Creator of the alphabet series featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
• Wilkie Collins — Pioneer of the detective novel and master of sensation fiction.
• V. C. Andrews — American novelist of Gothic family sagas and forbidden love.
• Sidney Sheldon — Prince of potboilers and master of the page-turner.
• E. Phillips Oppenheim — Prolific English novelist of glamorous international intrigue.
• Stieg Larsson — Swedish writer of the posthumously published Millennium trilogy.
• Sheridan Le Fanu — Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor.
• Thomas Harris — Author of the Hannibal Lecter suspense novels.
• Patricia Highsmith — The poet of apprehension
• Ruth Rendell — Author of psychological murder mysteries and creator of Chief Inspector Wexford.
• P. D. James — The queen of English crime fiction, creator of Adam Dalgliesh.

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