Alfred Hitchcock

Filmmaker

P. D. James

Former Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom

Agatha Christie

Stephen King

American author

Ruth Rendell

Author

Daphne du Maurier

Novelist

Patricia Hitchcock

American actress

Ken Follett

British author

Dick Francis

British jockey

John Dickson Carr

American writer

Martha Grimes

American writer

Sue Grafton

American author

Ross Macdonald

American-Canadian writer

Elmore Leonard

American novelist

Georges Simenon

Belgian writer

William Link

American television screenwriter

Dorothy B. Hughes

American crime writer

John le Carré

British author

Robert B. Parker

American writer

Mickey Spillane

Criminal

James Lee Burke

American author

Robert Crais

American author

Eric Ambler

Author

Lawrence Block

American crime writer

Donald E. Westlake

American writer

Edward D. Hoch

American writer

Erle Stanley Gardner

American lawyer

Barbara Mertz

American author

John D. MacDonald

American writer

Ed McBain

American author

Margaret Millar

American-Canadian writer

Carolyn Hart

Writer

Walter Mosley

American novelist

Lois Duncan

Max Allan Collins

American writer

Marcia Muller

American author

Tony Hillerman

American author

Ira Levin

American novelist

Stanley Ellin

American writer

Mignon G. Eberhart

American author

Phyllis A. Whitney

American writer

Peter Lovesey

British writer

John Creasey

Fiction writer

Stuart M. Kaminsky

American writer

Helen McCloy

American writer

Jane Langton

American author

Ellen Hart

Author

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

British television series