James Hadley Chase (1906–1985)

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1. James Hadley Chase

   Author of The guilty are afraid, An ace up my sleeve, Miss Shumway Waves a Wand

2. Georges Simenon

   Author of Maigret Goes to School, Maigret's Pickpocket, Maigret Has Doubts

3. Ed McBain

   Author of Cop Hater, The gutter and the grave, Doll

4. Patricia Highsmith

   Author of Strangers on a Train, A Dog's Ransom, Eleven

5. Cornell Woolrich

   Author of The Bride Wore Black, Rendezvous in black, Phantom lady

6. Ruth Rendell

   Author of The Rottweiler, An Unkindness of Ravens, A Sleeping Life

7. Robert van Gulik

   Author of The Chinese Nail Murders, Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories, The Haunted Monastery

8. John Dickson Carr

   Author of The Three Coffins, The Mad Hatter Mystery, The Blind Barber

9. Eric Ambler

   Author of Epitaph for a Spy, The Schirmer Inheritance, The Night-Comers

10. Donald E. Westlake

    Author of 361, Somebody owes me money, Slayground

11. Michael Innes

    Author of Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet, revenge!, Lament for a Maker

12. Ellery Queen

    Author of Calamity Town, The Finishing Stroke, Ten Days' Wonder

13. Charles Williams

    Author of A touch of death, Confidentially Yours, Go Home, Stranger

14. David Goodis

    Author of Cassidy's Girl, The Moon in the Gutter (Midnight Classics), Night Squad

15. Edgar Wallace

    Author of The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, Red Aces

16. Chester Himes

    Author of All Shot Up, Yesterday Will Make You Cry, Run Man Run

17. Max Allan Collins

    Author of Two for the money, The Last Quarry, Deadly beloved

18. Peter Cheyney

    Author of Uneasy Terms, Can Ladies Kill?, You Can Call It A Day

19. Willem Frederik Hermans

    Author of Ik heb altijd gelijk, Een wonderkind of een total loss, Paranoia

20. Erle Stanley Gardner

    Author of The Case of the Careless Kitten, The Case of the Hesitant Hostess, The Case of the Demure Defendant