Leslie Charteris (1907–1993)

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1. Leslie Charteris

   Author of The Saint and Mr. Teal, Señor Saint, The Saint Steps In

2. Rex Stout

   Author of Black Orchids, A Right to Die, A Family Affair

3. Erle Stanley Gardner

   Author of The Case of the Careless Kitten, The Case of the Lame Canary, The Case of the Golddigger's Purse

4. Ellery Queen

   Author of Calamity Town, The Door Between, Death Spins the Platter

5. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Opening Night, Final Curtain, Light Thickens

6. John Dickson Carr

   Author of The Three Coffins, Death-Watch, Below Suspicion

7. Richard S. Prather

   Author of Case of the Vanishing Beauty, The Wailing Frail, Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters

8. Margery Allingham

   Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, Dancers in Mourning, Cargo of Eagles

9. Peter O'Donnell

   Author of Modesty Blaise, A Taste for Death, The Impossible Virgin

10. Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Author of Tarzan and the City of Gold, Tarzan and the Forbidden City, Out Of Time's Abyss

11. Patricia Wentworth

    Author of The clock strikes twelve, The Case is Closed, The Benevent Treasure

12. Ian Fleming

    Author of From Russia with Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger

13. Andre Norton

    Author of Three against the Witch World, Lord of Thunder, Quest Crosstime

14. Terrance Dicks

    Author of Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders, Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood

15. Kenneth Robeson

    Author of Brand of the Werewolf, Quest of Qui, The Vanisher

16. E. E. Smith

    Author of Second Stage Lensman, Children of the Lens, Masters of the Vortex

17. Dorothy L. Sayers

    Author of Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, In the Teeth of the Evidence

18. Keith Laumer

    Author of A Plague of Demons, Retief! (A Collection of Stories), Dinosaur Beach

19. Edmund Crispin

    Author of The Moving Toyshop, The Long Divorce, Beware of the Trains

20. Georgette Heyer

    Author of Why Shoot a Butler?, They Found Him Dead, A Blunt Instrument