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This is a list of Detective fiction authors. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction. This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Thriller fiction, sometimes called suspense fiction, is a genre of literature that typically entails fast-paced plots, numerous action scenes, and limited character development. ...

Margery Louise Allingham (1904-1966) was born in London and attended The Perse High School for Girls in Cambridge, before returning to London and the Polytechnic for Speech-Training. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Frank Arnau (9 March 1894, Vienna - 11 February 1976, Munich) was a German crime fiction writer. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... E. C. Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Larry Beinhart is an American Edgar Award winning author. ... Earl Derr Biggers (August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known through adaptations of his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Felicity Winifred Carter (December 2, 1907—1995), better known by the pen name Emery Bonnet, was an English writer of novels, detective fiction and screenplays. ... John Hubert Arthur Coulson (born August 10, 1906) is an English writer of detective novels and screenplays, who has written under the pen name John Bonnet. ... Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915 - March 18, 1978), was a writer of fantasy and science fiction, mystery novels and - best known to the general public - Hollywood screenplays, most notably The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... William Collin Brooks (22 December 1893 - 1959), frequently known as CB), was a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. ... Lilian Jackson Braun Lilian Jackson Braun was born in 1912. ... James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Four False Weapons (1948), 1961 Pan paperback edition. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American author of crime stories and novels. ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leslie Charteris (May 12, 1907, Singapore–April 15, 1993) was born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, to a Chinese father and an English mother. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... For the town of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, see Chesterton (Cambridge). ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), better known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of award-winning novelist Dennis Lynds, (b. ... Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of award-winning novelist Dennis Lynds, (b. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels, notably those featuring Hieronymus Harry Bosch. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patricia Cornwell frequently writes about her hometown, Richmond, Virginia. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Crais is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. ... Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 _ October 9, 2003), American academic and feminist author, wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 _ October 9, 2003), American academic and feminist author, wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross. ... Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. ... (Norman) Colin Dexter is the British author of the Inspector Morse novels. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 2005 reprint of Plunder of the Sun. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Image:Sir Conan doyle. ... 1859 (MDCCCLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Francis Henry Durbridge (25 November 1912 - April 11, 1998) was a British playwright and author born in Hull. ... Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952) is an American writer of of detective and Western fiction. ... R(ichard) Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. ... Kinky Friedman in a characteristic pose Richard S. Kinky Friedman, (born October 31, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humourist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912), born in Pike County, Georgia, was an American writer. ... Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 - March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the names A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Alan Gordon is also the name of a songwriter most well-known for songs by The Turtles, Barbra Streisand, and Dr. Demento. ... Chester Gould (November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... John Harvey (born 1938) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of ten jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels. ... Barry Hughart (born March 13, 1934) is classified as a fantasy author. ... Michael Innes was the pseudonym of an Oxford academic, J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994), under which name he wrote about forty crime novels between 1936 and 1986. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Dennis Lehane (born 1966) is an American author. ... Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of award-winning novelist Dennis Lynds, (b. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park (born 3 August 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... J. A. Jance is an award-winning contemporary American author of mystery and horror novels. ... John D. MacDonald John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986), writing as John D. MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ross MacDonald (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ross MacDonald (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor. ... Henning Mankell at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2005 Henning Mankell (born February 3, 1948) is an internationally known Swedish author of crime fiction and other books, as well as plays. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Ngaio Marsh DBE (April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh was an author and theatre director from New Zealand. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James McClure (born 9 October 1939, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jimmy McGovern (born 1949 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television scriptwriter, known for his powerful and thought-provoking dramas often based around hard-hitting social issues or controversial real-life events. ... Gladys Mitchell (April 19, 1901 – July 27, 1983) was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Friedrich Neznansky (Born September 27, 1932) is a popular Russian crime novelist. ... Joyce Carol Oates, or JCO, (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and is the with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978 [1]. Oates is also the editor of the Norton anthology Telling Stories - An Anthology for Writers [2]. She serves... Robert B. Parkers novel Cold Service Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Edith Mary Pargeter (September 28, 1913 - October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honored for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913–October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history andhistorical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Frederick Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manfred B. Lee (January 11, 1905–April 3, 1971), to write detective fiction. ... Ian Rankin (born April 28, 1960 in Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers of the United Kingdom, and one of the worlds foremost writers in the genre. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require removal of its excessive redlinks. ... Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is a British best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Les Roberts is also the name of the primary author of a study in the Lancet reporting nearly 100,000 civilian casualties in the Iraq War in October 2004 Les Roberts began his career as a contemporary American mystery novelist after twenty-four years in Hollywood, having written and/or... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steven Saylor (born March 23, 1956) is an American writer of historical novels. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö are a well-known husband-and-wife team of detective writers from Sweden. ... Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Cheryl Kaye Tardif (born August 12, 1963 is a Canadian mystery author best known for her novels Whale Song[1], Divine Intervention[2], and The River[3]. Her stories feature prominant Canadian locations and characters, and each novel carries a theme, message or combination. ... Jack Vance John Holbrook Vance (b. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12, 1931 -, who uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a pen and reference name), is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Robert van Gulik (August 9, 1910 - September 24, 1967) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries. ... Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888 – 1964) was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Jeffery Deaver (born 1950, near Chicago) is a mystery/crime writer. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

See also

This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Crime writers may include the authors of any sub-genre of crime fiction, including Detective fiction, Mystery fiction, or hard-boiled fiction. ... This is a list of mystery writers: Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z —See also—External links A Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, (pseudonyms Carolyn Keene, Franklin W... The following are lists of authors and writers: By name A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T &#8211... // A Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (pseudonyms Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon) Catherine Aird Susan Wittig Albert Margery Allingham Donna Andrews B Linda Barnes Nevada Barr (born 1952) Laurien Berenson Francine Biere Enid Blyton (1897-1968), (The Famous Five and The Secret Seven) Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) Christianna Brand Rina Brundu C...

External resources

  • Private Eye Writers of America website: http://members.aol.com/rrandisi/myhomepage/writing.html
  • Classic Crime fiction Resource site for collectors of detective fiction

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detective fiction: Information From Answers.com (2355 words)
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur.
A common feature of detective fiction is an investigator who is unmarried, with some source of income other than a regular job, and who generally has some pleasing eccentricities or striking characteristics.
He or she frequently has a less intelligent assistant, or foil, who is asked to make apparently irrelevant inquiries, and who acts as an audience surrogate for the explanation of the mystery at the end of the story.
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