Crime fiction/Catalogs/Prominent writers
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- David M. Alexander (1945–)
- Nationality: American
- Ted Allbeury (1917–2005)
- Nationality: British
- Margery Allingham
- Nationality: British
- Eric Ambler
- Nationality: British
- Isaac Asimov
- Nationality: American (Russian born)
- Philip Atlee
- Nationality: American
- Desmond Bagley
- Nationality: British
- John Franklin Bardin
- Nationality: American
- Victor Canning
- Nationality: British
- John Dickson Carr, also wrote as Carter Dickson
- Nationality: American
- Raymond Chandler
- Nationality: American (born in Chicago, Illinois); British (naturalized in 1907)
- Leslie Charteris
- Nationality: British
- G. K. Chesterton
- Nationality: British
- Agatha Christie
- Nationality: British
- Manning Coles
- Nationality: British
- Wilkie Collins
- Nationality: British
- Richard Condon
- Nationality: American
- Patricia Cornwell
- Nationality: American
- Desmond Cory
- Nationality: British
- Edmund Crispin
- Nationality: British
- Deborah Crombie
- Nationality: American
- Lionel Davidson
- Nationality: British
- Arthur Conan Doyle—Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary lists him under Doyle rather than Conan Doyle
- Nationality: British
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Nationality: Swiss
- Umberto Eco
- Nationality: Italian
- Ian Fleming
- Nationality: British
- Brian Freemantle
- Nationality: British
- Alan Furst: Add brief definition or description
- Nationality: American
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Nationality: American
- John Gardner
- Nationality: British
- Michael Gilbert
- Nationality: British
- Friedrich Glauser
- Nationality: Swiss
- James Grady
- Nationality: American
- Sue Grafton
- Nationality: American
- Martha Grimes
- Nationality: American
- Wolf Haas
- Nationality: Austrian
- William Haggard
- Nationality: British
- Adam Hall
- Nationality: British
- Donald Hamilton
- Nationality: American
- Dashiell Hammett
- Nationality: American
- Georgette Heyer
- Nationality: British
- Patricia Highsmith
- Nationality: American
- Tony Hillerman
- Nationality: American
- Chester Himes
- Nationality: American
- Joseph Hone
- Nationality: British
- Geoffrey Household
- Nationality: British
- Richard Hoyt
- Nationality: American
- Jack D. Hunter
- Nationality: American
- P. D. James
- Nationality: British
- H. R. F. Keating
- Nationality: British
- Faye Kellerman
- Nationality: American
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Nationality: American
- Frederick Knott
- Nationality: British
- Alfred Komarek
- Nationality: Austrian
- Emma Lathen
- Nationality: American
- Maurice Leblanc
- Nationality: French
- Donna Leon
- Nationality: American
- Gaston Leroux
- Nationality: French
- Michael Z. Lewin
- Nationality: American
- Gavin Lyall
- Nationality: British
- John D. MacDonald
- Nationality: American
- Philip MacDonald
- Nationality: British
- Ross Macdonald
- Nationality: American
- Helen MacInnes
- Nationality: British
- Henning Mankell
- Nationality: Swedish
- Ngaio Marsh
- Nationality: New Zealand
- Ed McBain
- Nationality: American
- Charles McCarry
- Nationality: American
- Walter Mosley
- Nationality: American
- James Munro
- Nationality:British
- Sara Paretsky
- Nationality: American
- Anne Perry
- Nationality: British
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Nationality: American
- J. B. Priestley
- Nationality: British
- Ellery Queen, also wrote as Barnaby Ross
- Nationality: American
- Edogawa Rampo (江戸川乱歩)
- Nationality: Japanese
- Clayton Rawson
- Nationality: American
- Ruth Rendell, also writes as Barbara Vine
- Nationality: British
- Reginald Rose
- Nationality: American
- Eva Rossmann
- Nationality: Austrian
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Nationality: British
- Anthony Shaffer
- Nationality: British
- Georges Simenon
- Nationality: Belgian
- Desmond Skirrow
- Nationality: British
- Julian Symons
- Nationality: British
- Rex Stout
- Nationality: American
- Ross Thomas
- Nationality: American
- Edgar Wallace
- Nationality: British
- Minette Walters
- Nationality: British
- Donald Westlake, also wrote as Richard Stark
- Nationality: American
- Collin Wilcox
- Nationality: American
- Alan Williams
- Nationality: British