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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
The two Crime Companions. The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association. [1] [2] Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list titled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. [3] [4] Many titles can be found in both lists. [3]
Most authors of whodunits, in which the puzzle-solving aspect predominates, are named exclusively as writers in the more specific subcategory of "mystery." Authors of crime fiction in which investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather, The Postman Always Rings Twice) are named in the "crime fiction" category, but not as ...
Leonard, “The Dickens of Detroit,” defined late-20th-century crime fiction by penning almost a book a year during the 1980s, but Get Shorty stands as the author’s great achievement, a novel ...
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 .
Sarah Armstrong Mystery series; A Savage Place; School Days (novel) Sea Change (Parker novel) Shaft (novel) Shutter Island (graphic novel) Sixkill (novel) Spare Change (novel) Spenser (character) Split Image (novel) Stalking the Unicorn; Stardust (Parker novel) Stone Cold (Parker novel)
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Crime novels that have within them an investigation procedure including a detective or detectives. See also Category:Mystery novels that may also contain detectives but add an element of " whodunit ".