- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- R. Austin Freeman
- G.K. Chesterton
- Carolyn Wells
- A.E.W Mason
- E.C. Bentley
- Sax Rohmer
- H.C. Bailey
- Agatha Christie
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- G.D.H. & M. Cole
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lynn Brock
- Philip MacDonald
- John Rhode
- Anthony Berkeley
- Christopher Bush
- J.J. Connington
- S.S. Van Dine
- Henry Wade
- Anthony Gilbert
- Rufus King
- Margery Allingham
- Ianthe Jerrold
- Gladys Mitchell
- E.R. Punshon
- Ellery Queen
- John Dickson Carr
- Stuart Palmer
- Q. Patrick / Patrick Quentin / Jonathan Stagge
- Val Gielgud
- C. St. John Sprigg
- Ngaio Marsh
- Nicholas Blake
- Michael Innes
- Josephine Bell
- Anthony Boucher
- Cyril Hare
- Helen McCloy
- Christianna Brand
- Edmund Crispin
- Julian Symons
- Gwendoline Butler
- P.D. James
- Ruth Rendell
- Paul Halter
- Boris Akunin
- Christopher Fowler
(To add: Michael Gilbert, H.R.F. Keating, Peter Dickinson, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, &c)
