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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.
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 ...
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist, C. W. Grafton, she said the ...
Shelly Dickson Carr (granddaughter- Mystery Author) John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He lived in England for a number of years, and is often grouped among "British-style" mystery ...
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.
In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. [6] Five years later, The Maltese Falcon placed second on The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America; Red Harvest, The Glass Key and The Thin Man were also on the list. [7]
These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" (1920s–1930s). These detectives include amateurs, private investigators and professional policemen. They are often ...
Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 [2] – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood (1977-2004); Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector (1981-2010); and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman ...
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