Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)

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1. Mary Roberts Rinehart

   Author of The Bat, The Album, Episode of the Wandering Knife

2. John Dickson Carr

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

3. Rex Stout

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

4. Agatha Christie

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

5. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Final Curtain, Hand in Glove, Light Thickens

6. Patricia Wentworth

   Author of Grey Mask, Pilgrim's rest, Lonesome Road

7. Barbara Michaels

   Author of Shattered Silk, Search the Shadows, Be Buried in the Rain

8. Mignon G. Eberhart

   Author of The Patient in Room 18, Melora, Death in the Fog

9. Margery Allingham

   Author of The Crime at Black Dudley, Dancers in Mourning, Black Plumes

10. Carolyn G. Hart

    Author of Honeymoon with Murder, A Little Class on Murder, Deadly Valentine

11. Patricia Moyes

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

12. Josephine Tey

    Author of The Daughter of Time, The Man in the Queue, Miss Pym Disposes

13. Helen MacInnes

    Author of Assignment in Brittany, Message from Málaga, Above Suspicion

14. Elizabeth Daly

    Author of Arrow Pointing Nowhere, The Wrong Way Down, The Book of the Lion

15. Ellery Queen

    Author of The Finishing Stroke, The Spanish Cape Mystery, The House of Brass

16. Anna Katharine Green

    Author of The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, Agatha Webb, Dark Hollow

17. Erle Stanley Gardner

    Author of The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, The Case of the Velvet Claws, The Case of the Demure Defendant

18. Charlotte MacLeod

    Author of The Family Vault, An Owl Too Many, Wrack and Rune

19. Robert Barnard

    Author of Death of a Mystery Writer, The Case of the Missing Bronte, Death and the Princess

20. Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Author of The Left Leg, File for Record, The Hollow Chest