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This is a list of mystery writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day. The detectives are often accompanied by a Dr. Watson–like assistant or narrator.
Sayers wrote numerous essays, poems and stories which appeared in several publications, including Time and Tide, The Times Literary Supplement, Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The Spectator and the Westminster Gazette; in the last of these she was the author of a poem under the pseudonym H.P. Rallentando.
A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories); Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) ISBN 0-394-50117-9; Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) The anthology A Thirsty Evil (1956), with the additional short story "Clouds and Eclipses"
Angela Carter* — American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories) Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Robert B. Parker) Bruce Chatwin* — Anatomy of Restlessness (a collection of short stories and travel tales, as well as essays and articles) Geoffrey Chaucer* — The ...
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 ...
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.
This is a partial list of published short-story authors: A–B. Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954) Mazhar Abro (born 1971) Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)