19 Century Mystery writers

Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Wilkie Collins
Émile Gaboriau
Anna Katherine Green

Golden Age mystery authors

G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
John Dickson Carr
S. S. Van Dine
Ellery Queen
Rex Stout
Michael Innes
Stuart Palmer
Edward D. Hoch
Ronald A. Knox
E. C. Bentley
H. C. Bailey
Freeman Wills Crofts
Arthur Upfield
Craig Rice
Edmund Crispin
ANTHONY BERKELEY
Cyril Hare
Ngaio Marsh
Patricia Wentworth
Sax Rohmer
Isaac Asimov
Dorothy L. Sayers
Margery Allingham
Georges Simenon
Helen McCloy
Gladys Mitchell
Francis Beeding

 

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1925

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950

 

 

Turn of The century

Arthur Connan Doyle
R. Austin Freeman
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Gaston Leroux
Maurice Leblanc
Mary Roberts Rinehart

 

Pulp Fiction

Dashiell Hammett
Cornell Woolrich
Raymond Chandler
Erle Stanley Gardner
Ross Macdonald
Ross Thomas
Chester Himes
John La Care

 

After The Golden Age

Reginald Hill
Jim Thompson
P. D. JAMES
Lawrence Block
Ian Flemming
Frederick Brown
Randall Gareth
Peter Dickinson
Anthony Price
SHERYN McCRUMB
Hammond Innes
Eric Amber
Peter Robinson
Bill Pronzini
Ray Bredbury
Joseph Commings
Colin Dexter
Michael Gilbert
Tony Hillerman
Robert Barnard