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Joanne Fluke (born 1943) Gillian Flynn (born 1971) Rae Foley (1900–1978) (pseudonym for Elinor Denniston, who also wrote as Helen K. Maxwell and Dennis Allan) Elena Forbes. Richard S. Forrest (1932–2005) Karin Fossum (born 1954) Earlene Fowler (born 1954) Barbara Fradkin.
Ann Cleeves (1954–) Barbara Cleverly. Michael Collins (1924–2005), pseudonym of Dennis Lynds. Michael Connelly (1956–) Patricia Cornwell (1956–) Robert Crais (1953–) Bill Crider (1941–2018) Edmund Crispin (1921–1978) Amanda Cross (1926–2003), pseudonym of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun.
Almost all examples of mystery fiction focus on the investigation of one or more crimes and thus fall within the broader field of crime fiction. Authors of crime fiction in which mystery investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather , The Postman Always Rings Twice ) should be named only in the appropriate category, Category ...
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. Entries need an English Wikipedia page.
agathachristie.com. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running ...
Boston Blackie – reformed jewel thief, created by Jack Boyle. Rosemary Boxer – with Laura Thyme, gardening detective, created by Brian Eastman. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley – widowed socialite, created by Gladys Mitchell. Father Brown – Catholic priest, created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.
This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists. Note that some of these may overlap with authors of crime , mystery or spy fiction . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Cover of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first book featuring Hercule Poirot, by Agatha Christie. 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 ...