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- Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, (pseudonyms Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon)
- Ginny Aiken
- Catherine Aird (born 1930)
- Jiro Akagawa
- Susan Wittig Albert
- C. M. Albrecht
- Bruce Alexander Cook, (pseudonym Bruce Alexander, (1932 – 2003)
- Margery Allingham (1904–1966)
- James Anderson
- Donna Andrews
- Gosho Aoyama
- Charles Ardai
- Charlotte Armstrong
- Robert Arthur (The Three Investigators)
- Isaac Asimov
- Marian Babson
- Deb Baker
- David Baldacci
- Donna Ball
- Blue Balliett
- Jo Bannister
- Robert Barnard (born 1936)
- Linda Barnes
- Nevada Barr (born 1952)
- Lynne Barrett
- Bernard Bastable. (pseudonym of Robert Barnard)
- Robert Leslie Bellem (died 1968), (Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective)
- C.C. Benison, (pseudonym of Douglas Whiteway)
- James R. Benn (1949 - )
- Anthony Bidulka
- Claudia Bishop (pseudonym of Mary Stanton)
- Cara Black
- Nicholas Blake
- Lawrence Block
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968), (The Famous Five and The Secret Seven)
- Gail Bowen
- Rhys Bowen
- C.J. Box
- Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
- Christianna Brand (1907–1988)
- Lilian Jackson Braun (1913-2011), ("The Cat Who..." series)
- Don Bredes (1947 - ), the Hector Bellevance series]])
- Leo Bruce (1903–1979)
- Rina Brundu
- Marie Buchanan born 1922
- James M. Cain (1892–1977)
- Kate Calloway
- Joanna Cannan (1898–1961)
- Dorothy Cannell
- Victor Canning (1911–1986)
- John Dickson Carr (1905–1977)
- John Case
- Kathryn Casey
- Richard Castle
- Sarah Caudwell (1939–2000)
- Jessie Chandler (born 1968))
- Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
- Marion Chesney (born 1936)
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
- Jennifer Chiaverini
- CHIN Shunshin
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976) who created Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
- Mary Higgins Clark (1927-)
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Jeffrey Cohen (born 1957)
- Kate Collins
- Max Allan Collins
- Michael Collins (pseudonym of Dennis Lynds 1924-2005)
- Wilkie Collins
- Susan Conant
- J. J. Connington (1880–1947)
- Sheila Connolly
- Patricia Cornwell
- Cleo Coyle
- Edmund Crispin (1921–1978)
- Amanda Cross, pseudonym of Carolyn Heilbrun, (1926–2003)
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