Michael Francis Gilbert (1912–2006)

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1. Michael Francis Gilbert

   Author of Death Has Deep Roots, Game Without Rules, Anything for a Quiet Life

2. Michael Innes

   Author of Death at the President's Lodging, Hamlet, revenge!, Appleby's Other Story

3. Robert Barnard

   Author of Death By Sheer Torture, Death of a Literary Widow, A Fatal Attachment

4. John Dickson Carr

   Author of The Three Coffins, Below Suspicion, Panic in Box C

5. Cyril Hare

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

6. Peter Dickinson

   Author of The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest, The Yellow Room Conspiracy, The Lizard in the Cup

7. C. Day-Lewis

   Author of The Beast Must Die, End of Chapter, Head of a Traveler

8. Edmund Crispin

   Author of The Moving Toyshop, Holy Disorders, Frequent Hearses

9. Michael Hardwick

   Author of The Revenge of the Hound, Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes, The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes

10. Dell Shannon

    Author of Death of a Busybody, Double Bluff, Cold Trail

11. Margery Allingham

    Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, Flowers for the Judge, The Case of the Late Pig

12. Julian Symons

    Author of Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History, A Three Pipe Problem, The plot against Roger Rider

13. Martin H. Greenberg

    Author of Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes for the Holidays, More Holmes for the Holidays

14. Patricia Wentworth

    Author of The Fingerprint, The Benevent Treasure, Lonesome Road

15. Patricia Moyes

    Author of Down Among the Dead Men, Six Letter Word for Death, Falling Star

16. R. Austin Freeman

    Author of Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories (Dover Edition), Two Dr. Thorndyke Detective Novels: The Stoneware Monkey & The Penrose Mystery

17. Josephine Tey

    Author of The Man in the Queue, Miss Pym Disposes, A Shilling for Candles

18. Emma Lathen

    Author of Accounting for Murder, Green Grow the Dollars, Sweet and Low

19. Anthony Trollope

    Author of Dr. Wortle's School, Ayala's Angel, Cousin Henry

20. Peter Lovesey

    Author of Swing, Swing Together, The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, Bertie and the Seven Bodies