Harry Kemelman (1908–1996)

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1. Harry Kemelman

   Author of Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home, Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out

2. Rex Stout

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

3. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Opening Night, Final Curtain, Light Thickens

4. John D. MacDonald

   Author of Cinnamon Skin, The Empty Copper Sea, A Tan and Sandy Silence

5. Ellis Peters

   Author of A Morbid Taste for Bones, One Corpse Too Many, Dead Man's Ransom

6. Tony Hillerman

   Author of A Thief of Time, Dance Hall of the Dead, Listening Woman

7. Dorothy Gilman

   Author of The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari, Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish

8. Ellery Queen

   Author of Calamity Town, The King is Dead, The Finishing Stroke

9. Lawrence Block

   Author of Burglars Can't Be Choosers, Even the Wicked, A Ticket To The Boneyard

10. Martha Grimes

    Author of Jerusalem Inn, I Am the Only Running Footman, Help the Poor Struggler

11. Faye Kellerman

    Author of The Ritual Bath, The Forgotten, False Prophet

12. Dorothy L. Sayers

    Author of Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, In the Teeth of the Evidence

13. Emma Lathen

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

14. Lilian Jackson Braun

    Author of The Cat Who Came to Breakfast, The Cat Who Went into the Closet, The Cat Who Moved a Mountain

15. Sara Paretsky

    Author of Indemnity Only, Blood Shot, Deadlock

16. Erle Stanley Gardner

    Author of The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, The Case of the Substitute Face, The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife

17. Robert B. Parker

    Author of God Save the Child, The Judas Goat, Crimson Joy

18. Agatha Christie

    Author of Hercule Poirot's Christmas, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Postern of Fate

19. John Dickson Carr

    Author of The Three Coffins, Death-Watch, Below Suspicion

20. Sharyn McCrumb

    Author of If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him, Lovely in Her Bones, Highland Laddie Gone