- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- R. Austin Freeman
- G.K. Chesterton
- Carolyn Wells
- A.E.W Mason
- E.C. Bentley
- Sax Rohmer
- Isabel Ostrander
- H.C. Bailey
- Agatha Christie
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- G.D.H. & M. Cole
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Herbert Adams
- Lynn Brock
- Moray Dalton
- A. Fielding
- Philip MacDonald
- John Rhode
- Anthony Berkeley
- Christopher Bush
- J.J. Connington
- S.S. Van Dine
- Henry Wade
- Brian Flynn
- Anthony Gilbert
- Rufus King
- R.A.J. Walling
- Margery Allingham
- Vernon Loder (John Haslette Vahey)
- Robin Forsythe
- Ianthe Jerrold
- Gladys Mitchell
- E.R. Punshon
- Ellery Queen
- Anthony Abbot
- Harriette Ashbrook
- John Dickson Carr
- E.C.R. Lorac
- Stuart Palmer
- Q. Patrick / Patrick Quentin / Jonathan Stagge
- Noël Vindry
- Val Gielgud
- C. St. John Sprigg
- Norman Berrow
- Ngaio Marsh
- Rex Stout
- Nicholas Blake
- John Bude
- Michael Innes
- Josephine Bell
- Anthony Boucher
- Cyril Hare
- Elspeth Huxley
- Clifford Witting
- Margaret Erskine
- Helen McCloy
- Clayton Rawson
- Christianna Brand
- Edmund Crispin
- Julian Symons
- Michael Gilbert
- M.M. Kaye
- Gwendoline Butler
- H.R.F. Keating
- P.D. James
- Ruth Rendell
- Peter Dickinson
- Reginald Hill
- Robert Barnard
- Colin Dexter
- Paul Halter
- Boris Akunin
- Christopher Fowler
