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Margery Allingham
Anthony Berkeley
William F. Buckely, Jr.
John Dickson Carr
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Richard Condon
Joseph Conrad
Len Deignton
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Fleming
Kenneth Follett
Dick Francis
Erle Stanley Gardner
Dorothy Gilman
Martha Grimes
Dashiell Hammett
Jack Higgins
Tony Hillerman
Evan Hunter
Michael Innes
P. D. James
Harry Kemelman
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
Jane Langton
Emma Lathen
John le Carre
Joseph le Fanu
Gaston Leroux
Richard Lockridge
Robert Ludlum
John D. MacDonald
Ross MacDonald
Helen Clark MacInnes
Alistair MacLean
Ngaio Marsh
W. Somerset Maugham
James McClure
Herman Cyril McNeile
Peter O'Donnell
Marco Page
Ellis Peters
Edgar Allan Poe
Anthony Price
Ellery Queen
Ruth Rendell
Sax Rohmer
Lawrence Sanders
Dorothy L. Sayers
Georges Simenon
Maj Sjowall
Mickey Spillane
Mary Stewart
Rex Stout
Edward Stratemeyer
Josephine Tey
Robert Traver
Per Wahoo
Edgar Wallace
Patricia Wentworth
Donald Westlake
Phyllis Whitney
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