W. J. Burley (1914–2002)

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1. W. J. Burley

   Author of Wycliffe and the house of fear, Wycliffe and the Beales, Wycliffe and the four Jacks

2. Michael Innes

   Author of Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet, revenge!, A Night of Errors

3. Reginald Hill

   Author of Dialogues of the Dead, Pictures of Perfection, A Pinch of Snuff

4. Ruth Rendell

   Author of An Unkindness of Ravens, A Sleeping Life, Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories

5. Patricia Wentworth

   Author of Grey Mask, The Benevent Treasure, Lonesome Road

6. Margery Allingham

   Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, The Case of the Late Pig, Black Plumes

7. Ann Granger

   Author of Flowers for His Funeral, A Fine Place for Death, A Touch of Mortality

8. Robert Barnard

   Author of Death By Sheer Torture, A Hovering of Vultures, A Fatal Attachment

9. Elizabeth Lemarchand

   Author of Buried in the Past, Step in the Dark, The Affacombe Affair

10. Simon Brett

    Author of The Hanging in the Hotel, The Torso in the Town, So Much Blood

11. C. Day-Lewis

    Author of End of Chapter, Head of a Traveler, The Worm of Death

12. Catherine Aird

    Author of The Complete Steel, Some Die Eloquent, Amendment of Life

13. Colin Dexter

    Author of The Remorseful Day, Last Bus to Woodstock, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

14. John Dickson Carr

    Author of Below Suspicion, It Walks by Night, The Red Widow Murders

15. Edmund Crispin

    Author of Holy Disorders, Frequent Hearses, Beware of the Trains

16. Cyril Hare

    Author of An English Murder, When the Wind Blows, Death is No Sportsman

17. Patricia Moyes

    Author of Six Letter Word for Death, Who is Simon Warwick, Falling Star

18. Dorothy Simpson

    Author of Last Seen Alive, Dead and Gone, A Day for Dying

19. Ngaio Marsh

    Author of Enter A Murderer, Death and the Dancing Footman, Vintage Murder

20. Caroline Graham

    Author of Faithful unto Death, Death in Disguise, Murder at Madingley Grange