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Famous Crime Fiction Authors
A list of crime fiction authors who specialize in detective fiction. If you love a good mystery then these are the authors for you. Detective fiction is a sub-genre of mystery fiction along with thrillers and general crime fiction. In detective fiction, the plot typically follows an individual acting as an investigator whether he be a police officer, a private investigator, a bounty hunter, or even just an amateur trying to solve a crime. Most often, that crime is murder.
Detective fiction is an old genre, dating back to ancient Greece and Persia. Of course, in the western world, the most famous fictional detective of all is Sherlock Holmes.
Detective fiction is an old genre, dating back to ancient Greece and Persia. Of course, in the western world, the most famous fictional detective of all is Sherlock Holmes.
- 11890
- 2
Alan Gordon
1951 - 3
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
1926 - 41954
- 5
Andrew Vachss
1942 - 61859
- 7
Barry Hughart
1934 - 8
1921 - 9
C.M. Albrecht
- 10
Charles Finch
1980 - 11
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
1963 - 12
Chester Gould
- 13
Christopher G. Moore
1952 - 14
1930 - 15
Collin Brooks
1893 - 161894
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David Dodge
- 181965
- 19
Michael Collins
1924 - 201893
- 21
E. C. Bentley
1875 - 22
Earl Derr Biggers
1884 - 231809
- 24
Edmund Crispin
1921 - 25
Edmund Wallace Hildick
1925
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