Authors
- Abbott, Megan
- Adcock, Thomas
- Allain, Marcel (also known as: (with Pierre Souvestre))
- Allegretto, Michael
- Armstrong, Charlotte
- Bailey, H. C.
- Bell, David
- Bellairs, George
- Bentley, E. C.
- Bergman, Andrew
- Bernhardt, William
- Biggers, Earl D.
- Blake, James Carlos
- Blauner, Peter
- Boucher, Anthony
- Box, C.J.
- Boyle, Jack
- Brand, Christianna
- Brooks, Richard
- Bruen, Ken
- Buchan, John
- Buckley, William F.
- Bunker, Edward
- Burns, Rex
- Cain, James M.
- Cauffiel, Lowell
- Caunitz, William J.
- Charyn, Jerome
- Chesbro, George C.
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Childers, Erskine
- Christie, Agatha
- Coffey, Joseph
- Cole, William
- Coleman, Reed Farrel (also known as: Tony Spinosa)
- Collins, Wilkie
- Collins, Max Allan
- Condon, Richard
- Connolly, John
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cook, Thomas H.
- Cooper, Mike
- Corbett, David
- Coxe, George H.
- Crofts, Freeman Wills
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Day, Barry
- de la Torre, Lillian
- DeAndrea, William (also known as: Philip DeGrave)
- Deaver, Jeffery
- DeMille, Nelson
- Dent, Lester
- Dickens, Charles
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Dunning, John
- Eberhart, Mignon
- Ellin, Stanley
- Ellroy, James
- English, T.J.
- Estleman, Loren D.
- Faherty, Terence
- Faye, Lyndsay
- Fish, Robert L.
- Forrest, Richard
- Fowler, Christopher
- Freeman, R. Austin
- Futrelle, Jacques
- Gaboriau, Émile
- Gardner, John
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Garfield, Brian
- Gault, William Campbell
- George, Kathleen
- George, Elizabeth
- Gifford, Thomas (also known as: Dana Clarins, Thomas Maxwell)
- Goldsborough, Robert
- Gorman, Ed
- Goulart, Ron
- Grady, James
- Green, Anna Katharine
- Greenleaf, Stephen
- Greer, Robert
- Gruber, Frank
- Haddam, Jane (also known as: Orania Papazoglou)
- Hall, Adam (also known as: Elleston Trevor)
- Hall, James W.
- Hallahan, William H.
- Halliday, Brett (also known as: Davis Dresser)
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Handler, David
- Hart, Carolyn
- Harvey, John
- Harvey, James Neal
- Hautman, Pete
- Haywood, Gar Anthony
- Heald, Tim
- Healy, Jeremiah
- Heard, H.F.
- Hess, Joan
- Hoch, Edward D.
- Hone, Joseph
- Hornsby, Wendy
- Hornung, E. W.
- Housewright, David
- Howe, Melodie Johnson
- Hughes, Dorothy B.
- Hume, Fergus
- Hunter, Stephen
- Israel, Peter
- Janes, J. Robert
- Jessome, Phonse
- Jones, J. Sydney
- Kaminsky, Stuart
- Kaye, Marvin
- Keating, H.R.F.
- Kelly, Thomas
- Kelly, Mary Anne
- Keyes, Edward
- Kilian, Michael
- King, Peter
- Klavan, Andrew (also known as: Keith Peterson)
- Koenig, Joseph
- Langton, Jane
- Lansdale, Joe
- Lariar, Lawrence
- Latimer, Jonathan
- Law, Janice
- Leblanc, Maurice
- Leroux, Gaston
- Leuci, Bob
- Lewin, Elsa
- Link, William
- Lippman, Laura
- Lockridge, Frances and Richard
- Loomis, Gregg
- Lovesey, Peter
- Lowndes, Marie Belloc
- Macdonald, Ross (also known as: Kenneth Millar)
- MacLeod, Charlotte (also known as: Alisa Craig)
- Marlowe, Stephen
- Mason, A. E. W.
- Matteson, Stefanie
- Mayo, Michael
- McBain, Ed
- McBride, Matthew
- McCarry, Charles
- McNeile, H.C.
- McShane, Mark
- Milne, A. A.
- Mina, Denise
- Morley, Christopher
- Morrison, Arthur
- Murphy, Haughton
- O'Connell, Jack
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Olden, Marc
- Oppenheim, E. Phillips
- Orczy, Baroness
- Pachter, Josh
- Palmer, Stuart
- Parker, T. Jefferson
- Patrick, Q. (also known as: Patrick Quentin, Jonathan Stagge)
- Paul, Barbara
- Pentecost, Hugh (also known as: Judson Philips)
- Penzler, Otto
- Perry, Anne
- Perry, Thomas
- Peters, Ellis (also known as: Edith Pargeter)
- Peters, Elizabeth
- Phillips, Gary
- Pinkerton, Allan
- Piper, Evelyn (also known as: Merriam Modell)
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Post, Melville Davisson
- Queen, Ellery
- Quinn, Anthony
- Rankin, Ian
- Rawson, Clayton (also known as: Stuart Towne)
- Reeve, Arthur B
- Regester, Seeley
- Render, William H
- Rhode, John (also known as: Cecil John Charles Street, Miles Burton, Cecil Wade)
- Rice, Craig
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Robinson, Peter
- Rogow, Roberta
- Rohmer, Sax
- Rosen, R.D.
- Ross, James
- Sandrolini, John
- Satterthwait, Walter
- Schutz, Benjamin M.
- Shuman, Malcolm (also known as: M.S. Karl, M. K. Shuman)
- Sinclair, Murray
- Sklepowich, Edward
- Solomita, Stephen (also known as: David Cray)
- Spillane, Mickey
- Starnes, Joe Samuel
- Starrett, Vincent
- Stine, R.L.
- Stout, David
- Stout, Rex
- Sullivan, Mark T.
- Tapply, William G.
- Taylor, Andrew
- Thomas, Ross (also known as: Oliver Bleeck)
- Todd, Charles
- Vance, Louis Joseph
- Waites, Martyn (also known as: Tania Carver)
- Wallace, Edgar
- Wambaugh, Joseph
- Wells, H. G.
- Wells, Carolyn
- Westlake, Donald E. (also known as: Richard Stark)
- Westlake, Steven A.
- White, Teri
- White, Michael C.
- Whitfield, Raoul (also known as: Ramon DeColta)
- Wilcox, Collin
- Williams, Charles
- Wilson, F. Paul
- Zangwill, Israel