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Léo Malet (352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Léo Malet (1909–1996) was a French crime novelist and surrealist. He was known for creating the Parisian private eye Nestor Burma. Leo Malet was born in

Raymond West (character) (453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Raymond West is a fictional character who appears or is mentioned in several of Agatha Christie's novels and short stories featuring Jane Marple. He is

Sir Henry Clithering (337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Henry Clithering is a fictional character who appears in a series of short stories by Agatha Christie, featuring Jane Marple. The stories were first

Fredric Brown (1,370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for

Tommy and Tuppence (1,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife

Sam Spade (1,616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short

Earl Derr Biggers (657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frederick van Rensselaer Dey (February 10, 1861 – April 25, 1922) was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer. He was born on February 10, 1861

Lone Wolf (character) (390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective in a series of novels written by Louis

Mrs Bradley (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Beatrice Adela Bradley is a fictional detective created by Gladys Mitchell. Mrs (later Dame Beatrice) Bradley is Mitchell's most significant and long-lived

Anthony Boucher (1,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher (/ˈbaʊtʃər/), was an American author, critic

Inspector Japp (1,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Inspector James Japp (later Chief Inspector Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christie's novels featuring Hercule Poirot

Archie Goodwin (character) (1,945 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Archie Goodwin is a fictional character in a series of detective stories and novels by American author Rex Stout. Archie is the witty narrator of the cases

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist

Leslie Charteris (2,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leslie Charteris (/ˈtʃɑːrtərɪs/; born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin; 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well

Gideon Fell (653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dr. Gideon Fell is a fictional character created by John Dickson Carr. He is the protagonist of 23 mystery novels from 1933 through 1967, as well as a

Nick and Nora Charles (1,482 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man. The characters were later adapted for film in a series

Henri Bencolin (285 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Bencolin is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. He was Carr's first series detective, appearing in five "locked-room" and "impossible

C. S. Forester (2,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing

Inspector Hanaud (506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Inspector Gabriel Hanaud is a fictional French detective depicted in a series of five novels, one novella and one short story by the British writer A.

Paul Drake (character) (661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Paul Drake is a fictional private detective in the Perry Mason series of murder mystery novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. Drake is described as tall and

Miss Climpson (515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson (Alexandra Katharine Climpson in Unnatural Death; also called "Kitty") is a minor character in the Lord Peter Wimsey

Glyn Daniel (837 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Glyn Edmund Daniel FBA FRAI (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1986) was a Welsh scientist and archaeologist who taught at Cambridge University, where he specialised

Sir Henry Merrivale (651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977). Also known as "the Old Man

Della Street (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Della Street is the fictional secretary of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, short stories, films, and radio and television programs featuring

Ariadne Oliver (1,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ariadne Oliver is a fictional character in the novels of Agatha Christie. She (like Christie) is a crime fiction novelist, the creator of the fictional

Anthony Berkeley Cox (1,056 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley

Philip MacDonald (1,299 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philip MacDonald (5 November 1900 – 10 December 1980) was a British-born writer of fiction and screenplays, best known for thrillers. MacDonald was born

Margaret Cole (1,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dame Margaret Isabel Cole DBE (née Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective

Mignon G. Eberhart (1,180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mignon Good Eberhart (July 6, 1899, Lincoln, Nebraska – October 8, 1996, Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American author of mystery novels. She had one

Phyllis A. Whitney (645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phyllis Ayame Whitney (September 9, 1903 – February 8, 2008) was an American mystery writer of more than 70 novels. Born in Yokohama, Japan to American

Fulton Oursler (2,267 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Fulton Oursler Sr. (January 22, 1893 – May 24, 1952) was an American journalist, playwright, editor and writer. Writing as Anthony Abbot, he was

Jonathan Latimer (843 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (October 23, 1906 – June 23, 1983) was an American crime writer known his novels and screenplays. Before becoming an author, Latimer

Vincent Starrett (1,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (/ˈstærɪt/; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was a Canadian-born American writer, newspaperman

Bundle Brent (1,760 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent is a fictional character of two of the Agatha Christie novels, The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)

Sir John Appleby (720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories. Appleby had perhaps the

Duke of Denver (1,463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, the fictional title of Duke of Denver is held by Gerald Wimsey, older brother of the books' protagonist, Lord Peter

Cyril Alington (975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author. He was successively the headmaster

Gladys Mitchell (1,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English writer best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective

Edgar Jepson (637 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edgar Alfred Jepson (28 November 1863 – 12 April 1938) was an English author. He largely wrote mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also supernatural

Duke of Denver (1,463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, the fictional title of Duke of Denver is held by Gerald Wimsey, older brother of the books' protagonist, Lord Peter

Gladys Mitchell (1,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell (21 April 1901 – 27 July 1983) was an English writer best known for her creation of Mrs Bradley, the heroine of 66 detective

Arthur Hastings (2,228 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective

Dorothy B. Hughes (1,366 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective

Sir John Appleby (720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Appleby is a fictional detective created by Michael Innes in the 1930s who appeared in many novels and short stories. Appleby had perhaps the

Raymond Postgate (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, writer, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist

Doris Miles Disney (809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 47 novels, many of which were best sellers; several were

Ernest Elmore (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ernest Carpenter Elmore (4 November 1901 – 8 November 1957) was an English theatre producer and director, and writer of crime and fantasy novels. He wrote

J. I. M. Stewart (1,814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary

Hamilton Burger (1,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hamilton Burger is the fictional Los Angeles County District Attorney (D.A.) in the series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring

Seishi Yokomizo (1,072 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Seishi Yokomizo (Japanese: 横溝正史, Hepburn: Yokomizo Seishi, 24 May 1902 – 28 December 1981) was a Japanese mystery novelist, known for creating the fictional

Brett Halliday (1,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977) is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known

Philip Marlowe (2,763 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philip Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/ MAR-loh) is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre.

Marie Belloc Lowndes (1,506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist

Dr. Lancelot Priestley (957 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dr. Lancelot Priestley is a fictional investigator in a series of books by John Rhode. After 1924, Dr. Priestley took over from Dr. Thorndyke as the leading

Selwyn Jepson (711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Selwyn Jepson (25 November 1899 – 10 March 1989) was an English mystery and detective author and screenwriter. He was the son of the fiction writer Edgar

Cecil Day-Lewis (2,478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cecil Day-Lewis CBE (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United

Arthur B. Reeve (847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 – August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is known best for creating the series character Professor

Margaret Millar (1,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Margaret Ellis Millar (née Sturm; February 5, 1915 – March 26, 1994) was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense writer. Born in Berlin, Ontario (the

Mika Waltari (2,921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mika Toimi Waltari (pronounced [ˈmikɑ ˈʋɑltɑri] ; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian

Ethel Lina White (1,033 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ethel Lina White (2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was best known for her novel The

Kosuke Kindaichi (1,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kosuke Kindaichi (金田一耕助, Kindaichi Kōsuke) is a fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo, a renowned mystery novelist. His first case,

Anthony Gilbert (writer) (2,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Anthony Gilbert was the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (15 February 1899 – 9 December 1973), an English crime writer and a cousin of actor-screenwriter

Stuart Palmer (author) (1,127 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Stuart Palmer (June 21, 1905 – February 4, 1968) was a mystery novelist and screenwriter. He was most famous for creating the character Hildegarde Withers

Helen de Guerry Simpson (1,462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Helen de Guerry Simpson (1 December 1897 – 14 October 1940) was an Australian novelist and British Liberal Party politician. Simpson was born in Sydney

Miss Marple (3,804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts

Jeffery Farnol (541 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952) was a British writer from 1907 until his death in 1952, known for writing more than 40 romance novels

Erle Stanley Gardner (2,820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories

Michael Gilbert (1,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael Francis Gilbert CBE TD (17 July 1912 – 8 February 2006) was an English solicitor and author of crime fiction. Born on 17 July 1912 in Billinghay

Alan Melville (writer) (1,148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Alan Melville (9 April 1910 – 24 December 1983) was an English broadcaster, writer, actor, raconteur, producer, playwright and wit. Born William Melville

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (18 May 1909 – 9 January 1976) was an American writer of mystery novels, who was born and died in Boston. She graduated from Barnard

Mr. and Mrs. North (1,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and

Patricia Wentworth (981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 – 28 January 1961), known by the pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction

Harriet Vane (1,584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by

A. E. W. Mason (1,652 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He is best remembered for his

Helen McCloy (933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Helen McCloy (June 6, 1904 New York – December 1, 1994 Woodstock, NY), pseudonym Helen Clarkson, was an American mystery writer, whose series character

Louis Joseph Vance (1,747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Joseph Vance (September 19, 1879 – December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer. He created the popular character

Frank Gruber (1,349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frank Gruber (born February 2, 1904, Elmer, Minnesota, died December 9, 1969, Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of short stories, novels

Mary Roberts Rinehart (2,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her

Perry Mason (4,044 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley

Patricia Holm (2,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Patricia Holm is the name of a fictional character who appeared in the novels and short stories of Leslie Charteris between 1928 and 1948. She was the

Kogoro Akechi (1,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎, Akechi Kogorō) is a fictional private detective created by Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo. Akechi first appeared in the story

Arthur Gask (706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Cecil Gask (10 July 1869 – 25 June 1951) was an English dentist and novelist. He is one of the earliest authors of Australian-based crime fiction

Charles Parker (detective) (1,748 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sergeant/Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers

Kogoro Akechi (1,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎, Akechi Kogorō) is a fictional private detective created by Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo. Akechi first appeared in the story

Charles Parker (detective) (1,748 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sergeant/Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers

Josephine Bell (464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Josephine Bell, pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier, (8 December 1897 – 24 April 1987), was an English physician and writer. Bell wrote nineteen novels and

Kathleen Freeman (classicist) (2,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Kathleen Freeman (22 June 1897 – 21 February 1959) was a British classical scholar and author of detective novels. Her detective fiction was published

Hildegarde Withers (894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hildegarde Withers is a fictional character, an amateur crime-solver, who has appeared in several novels, short stories and films. She was created by American

Lawrence Blochman (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lawrence Goldtree Blochman (February 17, 1900 – January 22, 1975) was an American detective story writer and translator. Lawrence Blochman was born in

John Franklin Carter (804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Franklin Carter a.k.a. Jay Franklin a.k.a. Diplomat a.k.a. Unofficial Observer (1897–1967) was an American journalist, columnist, biographer and novelist

Rufus King (writer) (327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Rufus Frederick King (January 3, 1893, New York City – February 13, 1966, Hollywood, Florida) was an American author of whodunit crime novels. He created

Miss Silver (571 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Miss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth. Miss Maud Silver is a retired governess-turned-private

Charlotte Armstrong (1,701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905 – July 18, 1969) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels

Craig Kennedy (1,530 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Professor Craig Kennedy is a fictional detective created by Arthur B. Reeve. Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock

Philo Vance (3,327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was

Zenith Jones Brown (720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zenith Jones Brown (December 8, 1898 – August 25, 1983) was an American crime fiction writer who also wrote for a time in England. She wrote under the

Craig Rice (writer) (1,906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; June 5, 1908 – August 28, 1957) was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories, described by

Gervase Fen (764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels

Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (20 June 1886 – 4 September 1971) was an Anglo-Welsh biographer and author. He was mostly credited as C. E. Vulliamy, but he sometimes

Bony (character) (898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte is a fictional character created by Australian novelist Arthur Upfield (1890–1964). Bony is a biracial Aboriginal

Ruthven Todd (1,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ruthven Campbell Todd (pronounced 'riven') (14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of the works

Helen Reilly (429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Helen Reilly (April 25, 1891 – January 11, 1962), was an American mystery writer known for a series of novels featuring Inspector Christopher McKee, head

Milward Kennedy (629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (21 June 1894 – 20 January 1968) was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated

Mervyn Bunter (2,158 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mervyn Bunter is a fictional character in Dorothy L. Sayers's novels and short stories. He serves as Lord Peter Wimsey's valet, and served as Wimsey's

Anthony Gethryn (337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anthony Ruthven Gethryn is a character depicted in novels by Philip MacDonald and their cinematic counterparts. Gethryn is the series detective for more

Michael Shayne (1,166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser.

Anne Hocking (543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naomi Annie Hocking Messer (1889 – 17 March 1966), known as Anne Hocking and nicknamed "Mona," was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective

Edmund Crispin (3,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime

Frances and Richard Lockridge (1,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frances Louise Lockridge (January 10, 1896 – February 17, 1963) and Richard Orson Lockridge (September 26, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri – June 19, 1982

Alfred Walter Stewart (750 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alfred Walter Stewart (5 September 1880 – 1 July 1947) was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering

Victor Whitechurch (894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (12 March 1868 – 26 May 1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He wrote many novels on different themes. He is

G. D. H. Cole (3,637 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, historian, and novelist. As a believer in

The Great Merlini (400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician and amateur detective, who appears in four locked room

David Dodge (novelist) (1,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Francis Dodge (August 18, 1910, Berkeley, California – August 8, 1974, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) was an American author of mystery/thriller

Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, CBE, MC (16 April 1884 – 2 May 1963) was a British peer, Liberal politician, poet, author and newspaper editor

Hank Janson (1,266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hank Janson is both a fictional character and a pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who died in 1989. Frances wrote a series

Jules Maigret (2,704 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle

Inspector Palmu (1,469 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Inspector Frans J. Palmu (Finnish: Komisario Palmu), depicted as "a gruff detective of the Helsinki Police Department", is one of the most popular characters

August Derleth (4,476 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H

Leonard Gribble (834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Leonard Reginald Gribble (1 February 1908 – 27 September 1985) was a prolific writer from Devon. His novels often focussed on the particulars of policing

Colonel March (165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Colonel March is a fictional detective created by American writer John Dickson Carr. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 1930s and

Dorothy Cameron Disney (495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dorothy Cameron Disney MacKaye (November 13, 1903 – September 5, 1992) was an American mystery writer and journalist who was born in pre-statehood Oklahoma

Sarah Keate (840 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sarah Keate is a fictional character, the protagonist in a series of medical mystery novels by American author Mignon G. Eberhart. Keate, a nurse with

Albert Campion (3,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character

Max Carrados (1,079 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914. George Orwell wrote that

Baynard Kendrick (1,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (April 8, 1894 – March 22, 1977) was an American mystery novelist. He wrote whodunit novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private

Herbert Adams (novelist) (395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy' mystery novels, 28 featuring the detective Roger Bennion, a golfer and amateur sleuth whose

Hake Talbot (204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hake Talbot is a pen name of the American writer Henning Nelms (November 30, 1900 – May 1986). Talbot was chiefly known for his impossible crime, locked

Raymond Chandler (4,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler

Clayton Rawson (2,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great

Edogawa Ranpo (4,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tarō Hirai (平井太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩), was a Japanese author and critic

Jessie Louisa Rickard (1,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jessie Louisa Rickard, also known as Mrs Victor Rickard (1876–1963), was an Irish literary novelist. During her lifetime she became a versatile writer

Muna Lee (writer) (1,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Muna Lee (January 29, 1895 – April 3, 1965) was an American poet, author, and activist, who first became known and widely published as a lyric poet in

Nancy Barr Mavity (480 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nann "Nancy" Barr Mavity (October 22, 1890 – April 23, 1959) was an American crime mystery author. Nann "Nancy" Clark Barr was born on October 22, 1890

S. S. Van Dine (3,664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when

Elizabeth Fenwick Way (471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elizabeth Fenwick Way (April 5, 1916 – November 20, 1996), who wrote as Elizabeth Fenwick and E. P. Fenwick, was an American mystery writer, novelist,

Ruby Ferguson (1,746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ruby Constance Annie Ferguson, née Ashby (28 July 1899 – 11 November 1966), was an English writer of popular fiction, including children's literature,

Joseph Commings (536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Commings (New York, 1913 - Maryland, 1992) was an American writer of locked room mysteries. He wrote a series of soft-core sex novels, but is best

The Toff (1,335 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up toff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the Toff is the nickname of the Honourable Richard

Ernest Bramah (3,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 – 23 June 1942), the pseudonym of Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories

Johnny Fletcher (759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Johnny Fletcher is a fictional character created by Frank Gruber. Fletcher is a con-man and reluctant amateur detective. The character was the protagonist

Elizabeth Ferrars (1,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elizabeth Ferrars (6 September 1907 – 30 March 1995), born Morna Doris MacTaggart, was a British crime writer. During more than 50 years of writing, she

Richard Hull (writer) (441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Richard Henry Sampson FCA (6 September 1896 – 19 April 1973), known by the pseudonym Richard Hull, was a British writer who became successful as a crime

Norbert Davis (318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Norbert Harrison Davis (April 18, 1909 - July 28, 1949) was an American crime fiction author. Norbert Davis was born in Morrison, Illinois, where he grew

Cecil Street (2,055 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cecil John Charles Street OBE MC (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a crime fiction novelist

Judson Philips (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Judson Pentecost Philips (August 10, 1903 – March 7, 1989) was an American writer who wrote more than 100 mystery and detective novels under the pseudonyms

George Bellairs (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902–1982), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire. He began

Rex Stout (4,369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rex Todhunter Stout (/staʊt/; December 1, 1886–October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are

E. R. Punshon (1,047 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ernest Robertson Punshon (born East Dulwich, London 25 June 1872 – died Streatham, London 23 October 1956) was an English novelist and literary critic

Lord Peter Wimsey (5,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy

Todd Downing (writer) (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

George Todd Downing (March 29, 1902 – January 9, 1974), a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was one of the first commercially published mystery

Charlie Chan (5,121 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charlie Chan is a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on

Dolores Hitchens (1,402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Julia Clara Catherine Maria Dolores Robins Norton Birk Olsen Hitchens (December 25, 1907 – August 1, 1973) better known as Dolores Hitchens, was an American

Cool and Lam (2,916 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cool and Lam is a fictional American private detective firm that is the center of a series of thirty detective novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner (creator

Rupert Croft-Cooke (2,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rupert Croft-Cooke (20 June 1903 – 10 June 1979) was an English writer. He was a prolific creator of fiction and non-fiction, including screenplays and

Robert McNair Wilson (1,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Robert McNair Wilson MB, ChB (22 May 1882 in Maryhill, Glasgow – 29 November 1963 in New Forest, Hampshire), was a British surgeon, writer and

James M. Cain (5,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the

Dr. Thorndyke (2,896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943).

Marten Cumberland (527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sydney Walter Martin "Marten" Cumberland (23 July 1892 – 1972) was an English journalist, novelist and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonym Kevin

Montague Egg (876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Montague Egg is a fictional amateur detective, who appears in eleven short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Unlike Sayers's better-known creation, Lord Peter

George Goodchild (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Goodchild (1 December 1888 – 1969), also known as Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was a British author, screenwriter, and director

Georges Simenon (7,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective

The Saint (Simon Templar) (6,475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between

Arthur Upfield (2,911 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 12 February 1964) was an English-Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring

Carroll John Daly (2,626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was a writer of crime fiction. One of the earliest writers of hard-boiled fiction, he is best known for his detective character

Georgette Heyer (6,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georgette Heyer (/ˈheɪ.ər/; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction

John Creasey (4,456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction

Dashiell Hammett (6,887 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ˈdæʃəl ˈhæmɪt/ DASH-əl HAM-it; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short

Dashiell Hammett (6,887 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ˈdæʃəl ˈhæmɪt/ DASH-əl HAM-it; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short

W. Murdoch Duncan (319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Murdoch Duncan was a prolific Scottish thriller writer, born 18 November 1909 in Glasgow (died 19 April 1976, also in Glasgow, from cancer) who

Nero Wolfe supporting characters (7,270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Nero Wolfe stories are populated by a cast of supporting characters who help sustain the sense that each story takes place in familiar surroundings

Inspector Alan Grant (493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alan Grant is a fictional police detective created by Scottish author Josephine Tey. He appears in six mystery novels, including The Daughter of Time,

John Vandercook (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Womack Vandercook (April 22, 1902 – January 6, 1963) was a British-born American writer of mystery and travel books as well as a radio commentator

Edgar Wallace (7,494 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels,

G. K. Chesterton (9,565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. Chesterton

Kathleen Moore Knight (1,158 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kathleen Moore Knight (May 19, 1890 – July 30, 1984) was an American writer of detective fiction in the 1940s and 1950s. Her novels are often set on Cape

Raoul Whitfield (6,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raoul Whitfield (November 22, 1896 – January 24, 1945) was an American writer of adventure, aviation, and hardboiled crime fiction. During his writing

Ngaio Marsh Awards (2,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

after Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the four Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Award is presented at the WORD Christchurch Writers &

Lange Lewis (2,350 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jane de Lange Lewis (September 10, 1915 – February 1, 2003), known by her pen names Lange Lewis, Jane Beynon and Jane Lewis Brandt, was an American author

Nero Wolfe (18,570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro

Hercule Poirot (9,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hercule Poirot (UK: /ˈɛərkjuːl ˈpwɑːroʊ/, US: /hɜːrˈkjuːl pwɑːˈroʊ/) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot

English novel (5,024 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

There Were None (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction was Dorothy L. Sayers, while Georgette Heyer created the historical

English literature (17,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the mystery novel in the 1920s and 1930s, often called "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction." Together, these four women writers were honored as "The Queens

Twentieth-century English literature (7,105 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

And Then There Were None. Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction was Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957). Other recent noteworthy