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This is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction, mystery fiction, or thriller fiction. A–C
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction , including detective , mystery or hard-boiled . Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors .
For authors who write genre stories in which a puzzle must be solved, in almost all cases involving a crime, see Category:American mystery writers. Most authors of hardboiled detective fiction , in which both action and puzzle-solving are central, are named as both "crime fiction" and "mystery" writers.
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. The Golden Age proper is in practice usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being written.
A general consensus among crime fiction authors is there is a specific set of rules that must be applied for a novel to truly be considered part of the detective fiction genre. As noted in "Introduction to the Analysis of Crime Fiction", [ 75 ] crime fiction from the past 100 years has generally contained the following key rules to be a ...
Detective fiction writers by nationality (7 C) A. Authors of Sexton Blake (1 C, 25 P) C. Cozy mystery writers (22 P) W. Writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiches (90 P)
Jones has gotten the Nero Award, the Hammett Prize for Crime Fiction and the Michigan Notable Book Award. Ray Walsh, owner of East Lansing's Curious Book Shop, has reviewed crime novels and ...
Pages in category "American detective fiction writers" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .