Michael Innes (1906–1994)

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1. Michael Innes

   Author of Hamlet, revenge!, Appleby's Other Story, Myself and Michael Innes : a memoir

2. Margery Allingham

   Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, The Case of the Late Pig, Dancers in Mourning

3. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Opening Night, Final Curtain, Light Thickens

4. Edmund Crispin

   Author of The Moving Toyshop, Holy Disorders, Frequent Hearses

5. C. Day-Lewis

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

6. Cyril Hare

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

7. Emma Lathen

   Author of By Hook or by Crook, Murder Makes the Wheels Go Round, Murder Against the Grain

8. Dorothy L. Sayers

   Author of Busman's Honeymoon, The Nine Tailors, Unnatural Death

9. John Dickson Carr

   Author of The Three Coffins, The Mad Hatter Mystery, Below Suspicion

10. Catherine Aird

    Author of The Complete Steel, A Most Contagious Game, Some Die Eloquent

11. Robert Barnard

    Author of The Case of the Missing Bronte, Death By Sheer Torture, At Death's Door

12. Josephine Tey

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

13. Peter Dickinson

    Author of The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest, Sleep and His Brother, The Lizard in the Cup

14. Patricia Wentworth

    Author of Grey Mask, The Benevent Treasure, Lonesome Road

15. Nicolas Freeling

    Author of Because of the Cats, Gun Before Butter, Criminal Conversation

16. Gladys Mitchell

    Author of Watson's Choice, Come away, death, Speedy Death

17. Anthony Berkeley

    Author of Malice Aforethought, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, The Piccadilly Murder

18. Anthony Powell

    Author of What's Become of Waring, Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Journals, 1987-89

19. Freeman Wills Crofts

    Author of The Cask, Inspector French's Greatest Case, The Pit Prop Syndicate

20. Jane Langton

    Author of Emily Dickinson is Dead, The Memorial Hall Murder, Divine Inspiration: A Homer Kelly Mystery