H. R. F. Keating (1926–2011)

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1. H. R. F. Keating

   Author of The Perfect Murder, Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books, The Dreaming Detective

2. Michael Innes

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

3. Reginald Hill

   Author of Dialogues of the Dead, Pictures of Perfection, A Pinch of Snuff

4. Simon Brett

   Author of A Series of Murders, So Much Blood, Star Trap

5. Ellery Queen

   Author of Calamity Town, The King is Dead, Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective Crime Short Story As Revealed in the 106 Most Important Books Published in Th

6. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Opening Night, Vintage Murder, Final Curtain

7. Georges Simenon

   Author of Maigret and The Killer, Maigret Stonewalled, To Any Lengths

8. Mike Ashley

   Author of The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, Classical Whodunits, Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits

9. Ed McBain

   Author of Cop Hater, Romance, The Last Best Hope

10. Margery Allingham

    Author of The Case of the Late Pig, Dancers in Mourning, Cargo of Eagles

11. Ruth Rendell

    Author of An Unkindness of Ravens, A Sleeping Life, The Lake of Darkness

12. John Dickson Carr

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

13. Patricia Wentworth

    Author of Grey Mask, The Benevent Treasure, Lonesome Road

14. M.C. Beaton

    Author of Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist, Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

15. Erle Stanley Gardner

    Author of The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, The Case of the Substitute Face, The Case of the Buried Clock

16. Peter Lovesey

    Author of Bloodhounds, The Vault, Bertie and the Tinman

17. Colin Dexter

    Author of The Wench is Dead, The Dead of Jericho, The Riddle of the Third Mile

18. Robert Barnard

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

19. Nicolas Freeling

    Author of Love in Amsterdam, Because of the Cats, Criminal Conversation

20. Peter Robinson

    Author of In a Dry Season, Past Reason Hated, Innocent Graves