Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, (pseudonyms Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon)
Ginny Aiken
Catherine Aird (born 1930)
Susan Wittig Albert
Margery Allingham (1904-1966)
James Anderson
Donna Andrews
Charles Ardai
Charlotte Armstrong
Robert Arthur (The Three Investigators)
Isaac Asimov
Marian Babson
Deb Baker
Donna Ball
Blue Balliett
Robert Barnard (born 1936)
Linda Barnes
Nevada Barr (born 1952)
Lynne Barrett
Bernard Bastable. (pseudonym of Robert Barnard)
M. C. Beaton
Robert Leslie Bellem (died 1968), (Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective)
C.C. Benison, (pseudonym of Douglas Whiteway)
Claudia Bishop
Cara Black
Nicholas Blake
Enid Blyton (1897-1968), (The Famous Five and The Secret Seven)
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)
Christianna Brand (1907-1988)
Lilian Jackson Braun (1913- ), ("The Cat Who..." series)
Dan Brown
Leo Bruce (1903-1979)
Rina Brundu
James M. Cain (1892-1977)
Joanna Cannan (1898-1961)
Dorothy Cannell
Victor Canning (1911-1986)
John Dickson Carr (1905-1977)
John Case
Sarah Caudwell (1939-2000)
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
Marion Chesney (born 1936)
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Jennifer Chiaverini
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) who created Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)
Brian Cleeve (1921-2003)
Jeffrey Cohen (born 1957)
Kate Collins
Max Allan Collins
Michael Collins (pseudonym of Dennis Lynds 1924-2005)
Wilkie Collins
Susan Conant
J. J. Connington (1880-1947)
Patricia Cornwell
Edmund Crispin (1921-1978)
Amanda Cross, pseudonym of Carolyn Heilbrun, (1926-2003)
Marc Cherry
Jordan Dane
Diane Mott Davidson
Jeffrey Deaver
August Derleth (1909-1971)
Colin Dexter (born 1930)
Peter Dickinson (born 1927)
Franklin W. Dixon (The Hardy Boys)
David Dodge (1910-1974)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) (Sherlock Holmes)
Martin Edwards (author)
Kate Ellis
Ben Elton
Maggie Estep
Loren D. Estleman
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein (born 1947)
Charles Finch
Jane Finnis
Joanne Fluke
Earlene Fowler
R. Austin Freeman
A. C. Frieden (born 1966)
Susan Froetschel
Gayleen Froese
Elizabeth George
Michael Gilbert (1912-2006)
Leslie Glass
Alan Gordon
Gary Goshgarian
Sue Grafton (born 1940)
Caroline Graham (born 1931)
Anna Katharine Green 1846-1935
Dorien Grey
Martha Grimes (born 1931)
Elizabeth Gunn
Jane Haddam (born 1951)
Brett Halliday (1904-1977)
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny author of Ghost stations Mysteries
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
Charlaine Harris
Lee Harris
Carolyn G. Hart
Ellen Hart
J.M. Hayes
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974)
Reginald Hill (born 1936)
Tony Hillerman (1925-2008)
Genevieve Holden, pseudonym of Genevieve Pou (1919-2007)
Kay Hooper
Charlotte Hughes
Gwen Hunter
Greg Iles
India Ink
Michael Innes (1906-1994)
Ibn-e-Safi (1940-1980)
P. D. James (born 1920)
J. A. Jance
Charlotte Jay (1919-1996)
Linda O. Johnston
Stan Jones
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Alex Kava
H. R. F. Keating (born 1926)
Carolyn Keene, (author of Nancy Drew series of novels)
Faye Kellerman
Harry Kemelman (1908-1996)
Karen Kijewski
Carl Kosak (born 1934), (pseudonym KC Constantine)
Ken Kuhlken
Gale Laure
Barbara Lee
Gaston Leroux (born 1868)
Paul Levinson (born 1947)
Beverly Lewis
Laura Lippman
Peter Lovesey (born 1936)
Dennis Lynds (1924 - 2005)
John D. MacDonald (1916-1986)
Philip MacDonald (1900-1980)
Ross Macdonald (1915-1983)
Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005)
Margaret Maron
Ngaio Marsh
Edward Marston (pseudonym of Keith Miles)
Lee Martin
Rosemary Martin
Sujata Massey
Peter May - Writer (born 1951)
James McClure (born 1939)
Frank McConnell
Sharyn McCrumb (born 1948)
Val McDermid
Gregory McDonald (born 1937)
Michael McGarrity
Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983)
Kirk Mitchell
Christopher G. Moore, (born 1952)
John Mortimer (1923-2009)
Marcia Muller
Margaret Murphy
Beverle Graves Myers (born 1951)
Tim Myers
Michael P. Naughton
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Katherine Neville
Joyce Carol Oates
T. Lynn Ocean
Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)
James L. Overturf
Sara Paretsky (born 1947)
Barbara Parker (1946/1947-2009)
Robert B. Parker (born 1932)
Hayford Peirce (born 1942)
Elizabeth Peters
Ellis Peters (1913-1995), (pseudonym of Edith Pargeter)
Twist Phelan
Nancy Pickard
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Bill Pronzini
Ellery Queen, also wrote as Barnaby Ross
Patrick Quentin (pseudonym for Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb), also wrote as Quentin Patrick and Jonathan Stagge
Qiu Xiaolong
Edward Qiu
Ian Rankin (born 1960)
Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game)
Ruth Rendell (born 1930)
Craig Rice
Lynda S. Robinson
Kate Ross (1956-1998)
Ryukishi07 (born 1974)
Peter Robinson
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
Celestine Sibley
Georges Simenon
Marilyn Singer
Karin Slaughter
Donald J. Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown)
Maris Soule
Ross H. Spencer (1921-1998)
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mickey Spillane (1918-2006)
Rex Stout (the Nero Wolfe series)
John Straley
Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930), (his pseudonyms include Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon)
Sarah Strohmeyer
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Bernard J. Taylor
Josephine Tey
James Twining
Barbara E. Trombley
Arthur Upfield (1890-1964)
Andrew Vachss
Jack Vance (born 1916)
Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-2008), (pseudonyms include Seiko Legru), (Grijpstra and de Gier novels and short stories, Saito Masanoboe short stories, Jannie Jansen short stories)
Robert Van Gulik
Elaine Viets
Hillary Waugh (1920-2008)
Martha G. Webb
Collin Wilcox (1924-1996)
Darryl Wimberley (born 1949)
Anne Wingate
Margaret Yorke
Mark Richard Zubro