- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- R. Austin Freeman
- G.K. Chesterton
- Baroness Orczy
- Carolyn Wells
- A.E.W Mason
- E.C. Bentley
- Sax Rohmer
- Ernest Bramah
- Isabel Ostrander
- H.C. Bailey
- Agatha Christie
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Eden Phillpotts
- G.D.H. & M. Cole
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Patricia Wentworth
- Herbert Adams
- Lynn Brock
- Moray Dalton
- A. Fielding
- Philip MacDonald
- John Rhode / Miles Burton / Cecil Waye
- Anthony Berkeley
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Ronald Knox
- Christopher Bush
- J.J. Connington
- S.S. Van Dine
- Henry Wade
- Brian Flynn
- Anthony Gilbert
- Rufus King
- R.A.J. Walling
- Margery Allingham
- Alice Campbell
- Leslie Charteris
- Milward Kennedy
- Vernon Loder (John Haslette Vahey)
- Neil Gordon / John Cameron (A.G. Macdonell)
- Steeman
- Robin Forsythe
- David Frome / Leslie Ford
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ianthe Jerrold
- George Limnelius / Lewis Robinson
- Gladys Mitchell
- Milton M. Propper
- E.R. Punshon
- Ellery Queen
- Josephine Tey
- Anthony Abbot
- Harriette Ashbrook
- John Dickson Carr
- R.C. Ashby
- E.C.R. Lorac
- Stuart Palmer
- Simenon
- Noël Vindry
- Roger East
- Georgette Heyer
- C. Daly King
- Q. Patrick / Patrick Quentin / Jonathan Stagge
- R. C. Woodthorpe
- Douglas G. Browne
- Todd Downing
- Val Gielgud
- Winifred Peck
- C. St. John Sprigg
- Norman Berrow
- Richard Hull
- Ngaio Marsh
- Rex Stout
- Nicholas Blake
- John Bude
- Leo Bruce
- Mary Fitt
- Michael Innes
- Rupert Penny
- F.J. Whaley
- Josephine Bell
- Anthony Boucher
- Cyril Hare
- Elspeth Huxley
- Francis Vivian
- Clifford Witting
- Dorothy Bowers
- Margaret Erskine
- Helen McCloy
- Clayton Rawson
- Raymond Chandler
- Christianna Brand
- John and Emery Bonett
- Edmund Crispin
- Julian Symons
- Michael Gilbert
- Max Murray
- M.M. Kaye
- Gwendoline Butler
- H.R.F. Keating
- P.D. James
- Ruth Rendell
- Peter Dickinson
- Reginald Hill
- Peter Lovesey
- Robert Barnard
- Colin Dexter
- Paul Halter
- Boris Akunin
- Christopher Fowler