Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)

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1. Alfred Hitchcock

   Author of Stories Not for the Nervous, My Favorites in Suspense, Skull Session

2. Agatha Christie

   Author of At Bertram's Hotel, Dead Man's Folly, Crooked House

3. Erle Stanley Gardner

   Author of The Case of the Careless Kitten, The Case of the Lame Canary, The Case of the Rolling Bones

4. Rex Stout

   Author of Fer-de-Lance, A Right to Die, A Family Affair

5. Franklin W. Dixon

   Author of The Missing Chums, The Shore Road Mystery, The Great Airport Mystery

6. Stephen King

   Author of Everything's Eventual, Different Seasons, Dolores Claiborne

7. Orson Welles

   Author of Touch of Evil, Chimes at midnight, The Magnificent Ambersons

8. Stanley Kubrick

   Author of Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon

9. Peter Weir

   Author of Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show [1998 film], Witness

10. Ellery Queen

    Author of Calamity Town, Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective Crime Short Story As Revealed in the 106 Most Important Books Published in Th, Ellery Queen's Twentieth Century Detective Stories

11. John Dickson Carr

    Author of The Three Coffins, The Case of the Constant Suicides, The Problem of the Wire Cage

12. Martin Scorsese

    Author of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets

13. Isaac Asimov

    Author of Nine Tomorrows, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, More Tales of the Black Widowers

14. Robert Arthur

    Author of The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot, The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy, The Mystery of the Screaming Clock

15. Sergio Leone

    Author of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars

16. Billy Wilder

    Author of Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Sabrina

17. William Arden

    Author of The Mystery of the Moaning Cave, The Secret of Shark Reef, The Mystery of the Purple Pirate

18. Steven Spielberg

    Author of Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark [videorecording], Hook

19. Harlan Ellison

    Author of Deathbird Stories, Again, Dangerous Visions, Shatterday

20. Mary Carey

    Author of The Secret of the Haunted Mirror, The Mystery of the Singing Serpent, The Mystery of the Sinister Scarecrow