Marian Babson (1929- ) -- Robert Barnard (1936- ) -- Gavin Black (Oswald Morris Wynd) (1913-1998) -- Lionel Black (Dudley Barker) (1910-1980) -- Christianna Brand (1907-1988) -- Simon Brett (1945- ) -- W.J. Burley (1914- ) -- Heron Carvic (1917?-1980) -- James Hadley Chase (Rene Raymond) (1906-1985) -- Douglas Clark (1919-1993) -- Brian Cleeve (1921- ) -- Liza Cody (1944- ) -- Desmond Cory (Shaun Lloyd McCarthy) (1928- ) -- Lionel Davidson (1922- ) -- Peter Dickinson (1927- ) -- Joan Fleming (1908-1980) -- Antonia Fraser (1932- ) -- Celia Fremlin (1914- ) -- Jonathan Gash (John Grant) (1933- ) -- William Haggard (Richard Clayton) (1907-1993) -- Adam Hall (Trevor Dudley-Smith) (1920-1995) -- Reginald Hill (1936- ) -- Michael Innes (J.I.M. Stewart) (1906-1994) -- P.D. James (1920- ) -- Alistair MacLean (1922-1987) -- Jemes McClure (1939- ) -- James Melville (Roy Peter Martin) (1931- ) -- Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) -- Anne Perry (1938- ) -- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) (1913-1995) -- Raymond W. Postgate (1896-1971) -- Anthony Price (1928- ) -- Ruth Rendell (Barbara Vine) (1930- ) -- Colin Watson (1920-1983)
Summary
Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century