The Best Mystery Authors
Voting Rules
List of writers of mystery novels, including fiction and nonfiction novels
List of the best mystery authors that include the novelists, poets and movie script writers. The list features the writer of the famous characters of Sherlock Holmes and writers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe that have been household names. It also includes more contemporary mystery writers that may border on horror and crime fiction, such as Stephen King or John Grisham.
The best mystery authors get readers hooked into the stories and expect to be mentally challenged throughout the story. But who is the best mystery author of them all?
Vote on your favorite author on the list or add your own to the pile if they are not mentioned.
The list will include the mystery author's name as well as some of the works they are famous from.Ranked by
- 1And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- 2The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 3The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, Watch on the Rhine
- 4The Tell Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven
- 5The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Farewell My Lovely
- 6A Right to Die, The Mother Hunt, Mountain Cat
