Mystery & Crime Writers
24 entries in the Mystery & Crime Writers compendium.
Mystery & Crime Writers — Era Chart
Arthur Conan DoyleScottish writer and physician, creator of Sherlock Holmes.Agatha ChristieBritish mystery drama television programme adapting all of Agatha Christie's Poirot storieDashiell HammettAmerican writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.Raymond ChandlerFounder of hardboiled detective fiction and creator of Philip Marlowe.Erle Stanley GardnerProlific American author and creator of Perry Mason.G. K. ChestertonEnglish writer known for wit, paradox, and Christian apologetics.Georges SimenonBelgian writer who created detective Jules Maigret.Dorothy L. SayersEnglish crime novelist and one of the four Queens of Crime.Dick FrancisBritish steeplechase jockey turned best-selling crime novelist.Edgar WallaceProlific British thriller writer and screenwriter of King Kong.Frédéric DardBest-selling French author known for crime, humor, and the San-Antonio series.Gaston LerouxFrench journalist and author of detective fiction.Shirley JacksonShirley Hardie Jackson was an American author born on December 14, 1916, in San Francisco,Sue GraftonAuthor of the alphabet mystery series featuring Kinsey Millhone.Wilkie CollinsEnglish novelist who shaped the detective and sensation genres.V. C. AndrewsAmerican novelist of Gothic family sagas and forbidden love.Sidney SheldonAmerican writer of Broadway, film, TV, and best-selling novels.E. Phillips OppenheimProlific English novelist of glamorous international intrigue.Stieg LarssonSwedish writer of the posthumously published Millennium trilogy.Sheridan Le FanuIrish Gothic writer and early locked-room mystery author.Thomas HarrisAuthor of the Hannibal Lecter suspense novels.Patricia HighsmithAmerican novelist known for psychological thrillers and Tom Ripley.Ruth RendellEnglish author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.P. D. JamesEnglish novelist and life peer, creator of Adam Dalgliesh.
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