For writers and readers of mystery
“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”
Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost
The Golden Age of Detection
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Margery Allingham
(1904–1966)
Eric Ambler
(1909–1998)
Margaret Armstrong
(1904–1966)
Lois Austen-Leigh
(1883–1968)
George Bellairs
(1902–1982)
Anita Blackmon
(1892-1942)
Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon
(1901–1982)
(1904-1948)
John Bude
(1901-1957)
Victor Canning
(1911-1986)
E M Channon
(1875–1941)
Leslie Charteris
(1907-1993)
G K Chesterton
(1874–1936)
Agatha Christie
(1890-1976)
Anthony Berkeley Cox
(1893–1971)
John Creasey
(1893–1971)
Edmund Crispin
(1921-1978)
Freeman Wills Crofts
(1911-1986)
Glyn Daniel
(1914-1986)
John Dickson Carr
(1906–1977)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859–1930)
Francis Durbridge
(1912–1998)
Joseph S Fletcher
(1863-1935)
Robin Forsythe
(1879-1937)
R Austin Freeman
(1862-1943)
Mary Fullerton
(1868-1956)
Andrew Garve
(1908-2001)
Elizabeth Gill
(1901-1934)
George Goodchild
(1888-1969)
Annie Haynes
(1865-1929)
Georgette Heyer
(1902-1974)
Horace G Hutchinson
(1859-1932)
Michael Innes
(1906-1994)
Ianthe Jerrold
(1898-1977)
Ronald Knox
(1888-1957)
J C Lenehan
(1889-1943)
E.C.R. Lorac
(1894-1958)
Ngaio Marsh
(1895-1982)
A A Milne
(1882-1956)
Gladys Mitchell
(1901-1983)
Baroness Orczy
(1865-1947)
Winifred Peck
(1882-1962)
Elis Peters
(1913-1995)
Raymond Postgate
(1896-1971)
E & M A Radford
(1891-1973)
Harriet Rutland
(1901-1962)
Dorothy L Sayers
(1893-1957)
Georges Simenon
(1903-1989)
Thorne Smith
(1892-1934)
Mary Stewart
(1916-2014)
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Josephine Tey
(1896-1952)
Molly Thynne
(1881-1950)
S. S. Van Dine
(1888-1957)
Patricia Wentworth
(1877-1961)
