Sara Blaedel
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William R. Burnett
(1899–1982)

John Buchan
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Andrew Bergman
(1945 – )

Sylvia Bishop

Parker Bilal
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Richard Brautigan
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Agatha Christie
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John le Carré
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Raymond Chandler
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Michael Connelly
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Andrea Camilleri
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James M. Cain
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Harlan Coben
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Thomas Cantaloube
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arne Dahl
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Patrick deWitt
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Augusto De Angelis 
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Andrew De La Motte

Pierre Ducrozet
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James Ellroy
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Gillian Flynn

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(1814 – 1873)

Kike Ferrari

Émile Gaboriau
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Robert Van Gulik
(1910–1967)

David Goodis
(1917 – 1967)

Lisa Gray

Dashiell Hammett
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Patricia Highsmith
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Evan Hunter
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Paul Halter
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Gregg Hurwitz
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P. D. James
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Pam Jenoff

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Stephen King
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Philip Kerr
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Marshall Karp
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Marek Krajewski
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Stieg Larsson
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Camilla Lackberg
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Henning Mankell
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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
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Robert B. Parker
(1932 – 2010)

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James Patterson
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Peter Robinson
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Ian Rankin
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Mickey Spillane
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Georges Simenon
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Leonardo Sciascia
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Maj Sjöwall
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Rex Stout
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Dorothy Sayers
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Jim Thompson
(1906 – 1977)

Alan Trotter

Per Wahlöö
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Ruth Ware
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Charles Ray
Willeford III
(1919 – 1988)

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
(1875 –1932)

Tim Weaver
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