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SS - short stories
Bib - site contains bibliography
Bio - site contains biography
Ebo - site allows downloads of electronic books
Gfx - site contains graphics (covers, pictures, etc)
Rev - site contains reviews
Most prominent detective characters shown in bold.

See also:

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateMystery/authors.html for an alphabetical list of detective fiction authors.
http://members.aol.com/mg4273 for some critical discussion of many of the authors on this list
http://hem.passagen.se/orange for a collection of bibliographies

This page visited times since 24/10/98

Author (and real name) Detective Books Website, etc.
Adams, Herbert Roger Bennion Authors/Adams_H.htm
Allingham, Margery Albert Campion http://hem.passagen.se/orange/alling.htm (Bib)
Ames, Delano Dagobert Brown http://hem.passagen.se/orange/ames.htm (Bib)
Bellairs, George Superintendent Littlejohn Authors/Bellairs_G.htm
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew Philip Trent http://members.aol.com/MG4273/bentley.htm
http://www.sahlstrom.se/myworld/trentslastcase.html (Gfx)
Blake, Nicholas
(Cecil Day-Lewis)
Nigel Strangeways http://hem.passagen.se/orange/blake.htm (Bib)
Berkeley, Anthony Roger Sheringham http://members.aol.com/mg4273/bentley.htm#Berkeley
Burton, Miles see Rhode, John
Carr, John Dickson
see also
Dickson, Carter
Henri Bencolin
Dr. Gideon Fell
Patrick Butler
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/carr.htm (Bib)
Chaber, M.E. (Kendell Foster Crossen) Milo March Authors/Chaber_ME.htm
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/police.htm#Crossen
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (G. K.) Father Brown http://pantheon.yale.edu/~yoder/mystery/chest.html
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0mpw/gkc/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7854/index.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gkchest.htm
Christie, Agatha Hercule Poirot
Jane Marple

Thomas and Tuppence Beresford
Harley Quin
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/christie.htm (Bib)
Cobb, Belton Cheviot Burmann, Kitty Armitage Authors/Cobb_B.htm
Cockin, Joan Inspector Cam Authors/Cockin_J.htm
Crane, Frances Pat and Jean Abbott Authors/Crane_F.htm
Creasey, John Gideon of the Yard
Crispin, Edmund http://hem.passagen.se/orange/crispin.htm (Bib)
Crofts, Freeman Wills Inspector French
Daly, Elizabeth Henry Gamadge Authors/Daly_E.htm
Daviot, Gordon
see also
Josephine Tey
Alan Grant http://hem.passagen.se/orange/tey.htm
Detection Club, The Various The Floating Admiral (1931)
Dickson, Carter
see also
Carr, John Dickson

 

Sir Henry Merrivale http://hem.passagen.se/orange/carr.htm (Bib)
Egan, Lesley
(Elizabeth Linington)
Jesse Falkenstein
Vic Varallo
Lesley Egan just scrapes into the period with her stories of her over-curious Lo Angeles lawyer and his wife Nell.
Ellington, Richard Steve Drake Shoot the Works and Stone Cold Dead (Cassell & Co, London 1952) in which Drake impersonates a drug dealer on a trip to the Virgin Islands.
Fleming, Oliver see Philip MacDonald
Freeman, R. Austin Doctor Thorndyke http://members.aol.com/mg4273/freeman.htm
Futrelle, Jacques "The Thinking Machine" http://members.aol.com/MG4273/hanshews.htm#Futrelle
Gardner, Erle Stanley Perry Mason
Donald Lam & Bertha Cool
Gilbert, Michael Various Smallbone Deceased (1950)
Death in Captivity (1952)
Hare, Cyril Francis Pettigrew http://hem.passagen.se/orange/hare.htm (Bib)
Innes, Michael
(John Stewart)
John Appleby
Jenkins, Herbert Malcolm Sage Authors/Jenkins_H.htm
Knox, Ronald http://hem.passagen.se/orange/knox.htm (Bib)
Lacy, Ed Matt Lund Authors/Lacy_E.htm
Lawless, Anthony see Philip Macdonald
Lockridge, Richard and Frances Pam and Jerry North, Merton Heimrich Authors/Lockridge.htm
Macdonald, Philip newpage1.htm
Mainwaring, Marion Various - parody Murder in Pastiche (1955)
Marble, M.S. Joseph Gascoyne newpage1.htm
Marsh, Ngaio Inspector Roderick Alleyn http://hem.passagen.se/orange/marsh.htm (Bib)
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/ngmarsh.htm (Rev)
Mason, A.E.W Inspector Hanaud At the Villa Rose
The House of the Arrow
The Prisoner in the Opal
(Omnibus edition 1931)
McCloy, Helen Basil Willing http://hem.passagen.se/orange/mccloy.htm (Bib)
McNamara, Ed Police Chief Tom Sheerin Once Over Deadly (Abelard-Schuman, 1958) - Sheerin doggedly plods through family hatreds to solve a mystery in opposition to the 'scientific' policing of Lieutenant Pollack.
Milne, A. A
(one only).
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/ngmarsh.htm#Milne
Mitchell, Gladys Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley Authors/Mitchell_G.htm
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/gmitchel.html
Monig, Christopher Brian Brett Authors/Monig_C.htm
Palmer, Stuart Hildegarde Withers http://members.aol.com/MG4273/palmer.htm
Porlock, Martin see Philip Macdonald
Post, Melville Davisson Uncle Abner Authors/Post_MD.htm
Queen, Ellery
(Frederick Dannay & Manfred B. Lee)
Ellery Queen
Drury Lane
A detailed Ellery Queen site can be found at:
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/queen1.htm (Bio, Rev)

Others are at
http://www.mysterynet.com/history/queen/
http://members.aol.com/davdgideon/ellery.html (Bib)
http://www.chem.uottawa.ca/blixt/queen.html (Bib)
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/queen.htm (Bib)

and (for the TV series)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dastuart/videodir/ellerydir/index.html

Quentin, Patrick
(Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb)
Peter Duluth http://hem.passagen.se/orange/quentin.htm
Rawson, Clayton Merlini the Magician http://hem.passagen.se/orange/rawson.htm
Reilly, Helen Inspector McKee http://www.viser.net/~mac/dell/dell5/d397m.htm and
Reilly_H.htm
Rhode, John (Cecil Street) Dr. Lancelot Priestley
Rice, Craig
(Georgiana Anne Randolph)
Jake Justus
John J. Malone
Bingo Riggs & Handsome Kusak
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/rice.htm
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/rice.htm (Bib, Rev)
Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter Wimsey
Montague Egg
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/sayers.htm
Shannon, Dell Elizabeth Linington
Stout, Rex Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
Inspector Cramer
Theodolinda (Doll) Bonner
Tecumseh Fox
http://hem.passagen.se/orange/stout.htm
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood Asey Mayo
Leonidas Witherall
Tey, Josephine
(Elizabeth Mackintosh)
see also
Daviot, Gordon
Alan Grant http://hem.passagen.se/orange/tey.htm
Tilton, Alice
(Phoebe Atwood Taylor)
Leonidas Witherall
Torrie, Malcolm
(Gladys Mitchell)
Timothy Herring
Upfield, Arthur W. Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) http://members.aol.com/MG4273/literary.htm
http://www.mysteryguide.com/bkUpfieldWindee.html
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/press/pp0148.html
Van Dine, S.S. Philo Vance http://hem.passagen.se/orange/vandine.htm
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/vandine.htm (Bio)
http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/buecher/autoren/vandine.html
(in German)
Wallace, Edgar http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ewallace.htm
Walling, R.A.J. http://members.aol.com/mg4273/bentley.htm#Walling
Wees, Frances Shelley Jonathan Merrill Wees_FS.htm
Wentworth, Patricia Maude Silver Wentworth_P.htm
Williams, Valentine Mr. Treadgold http://members.aol.com/MG4273/ngmarsh.htm#Williams
Wilson, G.M Inspector John Crawford British mysteries combining detection with the occult - Bury that Poker; I Was Murdered; Thirteen Stannergate; Shadows on the Landing; It Rained that Friday (Robert Hale London 1960)
Wright, June Mother Paul (a nun) and Inspector Robert Savage Wright_J.htm
Zangwill, Israel The Big Bow Mystery

 

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