- Allingham, Margery
- Bell, Josephine
- Bentley, E. C.
- Berkeley, Anthony
- Biggers, Earl Derrs
- Blake, Nicholas
- Blyton, Enid
- Brand, Christianna
- Browne, Douglas G.
- Bude, John
- Bush, Christopher
- Campbell, R. T.
- Carnac, Carol (penname for E. C. R. Lorac)
- Carr, John Dickson (also see Dickson, Carter)
- Henri Bencolin
- Dr. Gideon Fell
- Hag’s Nook
- The Mad Hatter Mystery
- The Eight of Swords
- The Blind Barber
- Death-Watch
- The Hollow Man (AKA The Three Coffins)
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- The Crooked Hinge
- The Problem of the Green Capsule
- The Problem of the Wire Cage
- The Man Who Could Not Shudder
- The Case of the Constant Suicides (Jun 1941)
- Death Turns the Tables (Sep 1941)
- Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
- He Who Whispers (1946)
- The Sleeping Sphinx (1947)
- Below Suspicion (1949)
- Dead Man’s Knock (1958)
- In Spite of Thunder (1964)
- The House at Satan’s Elbow (1965)
- Christie, Agatha
- Poirot
- Miss Marple
- Colonel Race
- Inspector Battle
- Stand-alones
- Coggins, Joan
- Coles, Manning
- Connington, J. J.
- Crofts, Freeman Wills
- Crombie, Deborah
- Dalton, Moray
- Dickson, Carter (see also Carr, John Dickson)
- Sir Hugh Merrivale
- Stand alone novels
- Dillon, Eilís
- Disney, Doris Cameron
- Doherty, Paul
- Edwards, Martin
- Farjeon, J. Jefferson
- Flynn, Brian
- Forsythe, Robin
- Francis, Dick
- Freeman, R. Austin
- Gentill, Sulari
- Gilbert, Anthony (also see Meredith, Anne)
- Gribble, Leonard R.
- Hamilton, Henrietta
- Hare, Cyril
- Hay, Mavis Doriel
- Haynes, Annie
- Heyer, Georgette
- Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay
- Hull, Richard
- Innes, Michael
- Jecks, Michael
- Jerrold, Ianthe
- Kelley, Patrick A.
- Kelly, Mary
- Kemelman, Harry
- Kennedy, Milward
- Kitchins, C. H. B.
- Lee, Austin
- Little, Constance & Gwenyth
- Lockridge, Francis & Richard
- Lorac, E. C. R.
- MacDonnell, A. G.
- McCloy, Helen
- Melville, Alan
- Meredith, Anne (also see Gilbert, Anthony)
- Milne, A. A.
- Newman, Margaret
- Orczy, Baroness
- Powell, Richard
- Punshon, E. R.
- Quentin, Patrick
- Radford, E. & M. A.
- Rawson, Clayton
- Rhode, John
- Rice, Craig
- The April Robin Murders (1959) with Ed McBain
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Robb, Candace
- A Conspiracy of Wolves (2019)
- Rolls, Anthony
- Roos, Kelley
- Rutland, Harriet
- Sarsfield, Maureen
- Sayers, Dorothy
- Scherf, Margaret
- Sheridan, Juanita
- Sprigg, Christopher St John
- Symons, Julian
- Taylor, Phoebe Atwood (Tilton, Alice)
- Thomson, Basil
- Thynne, Molly
- Trow, M. J.
- Van Dine, S. S.
- Vickers, Roy
- Wade, Henry
- Wentworth, Patricia
- Yokomizo, Seishi
- Zangwill, Israel
Anthologies/Short Stories
- Christie, Agatha
- Edwards, Martin
- Hodder, Mark
- Ripley, H. A.
- Stout, Rex
Featured image from Black Mask, February 1933. Artist Unknown. Obtained from https://archive.org/details/BlackMask193302