Detective Authors Archive

The Beginning

The Usual Suspects

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Wilkie Collins
• Emile Gaboriau
• Charles Dickens

The Victorian Era

The Usual Suspects

• Anna Katherine Green
• Arthur Morrisson
• Georges R. Sims
• Grant Allen

• Catherine Crowe
• Caroline V. Clives

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• C.L Pirkis

Fading Ink: Beginning

Fading Ink: Victorian

• Charles Felix
• Andrew Forrester
• Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
• Waters
• A police officer
• Thomas Waters/ William Russell
• Victor
• Martel

• Mary Fortune
• Andrew McGovan
• William Russell

The authors behind the name

The Sherlockian Era

The Usual Suspects

The Golden Age

Usual Suspects: The Pillars

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• R. Austin Freeman
• Jacques Futtrelle
• Melville Davidson Post
• Ernest Bramah
• Baroness Orczy
• Fergus Humes

• G. K Chesterton
• Agatha Christie
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ngaio Marsh
• Marjorie Allingham
• John Dickson Carr
• Anthony Berkeley Cox

The Forgotten Footprints

• Guy Boothby
• L.T Meade and Robert Eustace
• Arthur B. Reeve
• J.S Fletcher

Usual Suspects: Inner Circle

• S. S Van Dine
• Freeman WIlls Crofts
• E.C Bentley
• H. C Bailey
• Patricia Wentworth
• Georgette Hayer
• Nicholas Blake
• Christianna Brand
• Michael Innes
• Edmund Crispin
• E.C Lorac
• Cyril Hare
• Henry Wade
• Michael Gilbert
• Gladys Mitchell

Golden Age: Forgotten Footprints

• E.R Punshon
• J.J Connington
• J. Jefferson Farjeon
• Richard Hull
• Christopher Bush
• Douglas G. Browne
• Anthony Wynne
• Dorothy Bowers
• Helen Simpson

The Author behind the Name

• Ellery Queen
• Josephine Tey
• Carter Dickson
• John Rhode
• Patrick Quentin

Hard-boiled Era:The Pillars

The Black Mask Magazine

• Carrol John Daly
• Dashiell Hammett
• Raymond Chandler
• John Ross Macdonald
• Mickey Spillane

The Heavy Hitters

• Erle Stanley Gardner
• W.R Burnett
• James M. Cain
• Cornell Woolrich
• Horace McCoy
• David Goodis