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| Author ↑ ↓ | Rating ↑ ↓ | Char. ↑ ↓ | Place ↑ ↓ | Period ↑ ↓ | Additonal Information |
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| Chesterton, G K |
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O | UK & Europe | 1910's - 1920's | Only stories featuring 'Father Brown' are rated ** |
| Freeman, Austin |
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O | England | 1920's - 1930's | |
| Temple, Peter |
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O | Australia (Victoria) | 1990's - | Only 'The Iron Rose' and 'Broken Shore' warrant an ** rating so far; other novels are rated *. Novels featuring 'Irish' are more 'thriller' than crime fiction. |
| Crispin, Edmund |
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O | England | 1930's - 1970's | Style dated but plottng clever and some mildly droll humour |
| Cotterill, Colin |
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O | Laos | 2000's - | Only early novels featuring Dr Siri are rated ***; |
| Carofiglio, Gianrico (T) |
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O | Italy, Bari | 2000's - | |
| Queen, Ellery |
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O | USA (East Coast) | 1920's - 1960's | Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. Only novels published prior to WWII are rated * |
| Sayers, Dorothy |
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O | UK | 1910's - 1940's | Only "Nine Tailors" and "Gaudy Night" are rated **. All others are rated *. |
| Sigurdardottir, Yrsa (T) |
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O | Iceland & Greenland | 2000's - | Only novels featuring Thora Gudmundsdottir are of interest as crime fiction or are rated *. "The Legacy" is not recommended. |
| Dine, S S van |
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O | USA (East Coast) | 1920's - 1930's | "Upper-class" settings; convoluted plotting. |
| Hare, Cyril |
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O | England | 1930's - 1950's | "Tenant for Death"is not recommended. |
| Mosley, Walter |
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O | USA (California) | 1980's - | Only the novels featuring 'Easy Rawlins' are rated *. Main theme is that racial prejudice justifies criminality; one of main characters is a violent criminal - not for everyone! |
| Maloney, Shane |
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O | Australia (Victoria) | 1990's - | Mildly pornographic."Something Fishy" is not recommended. |
| Gulick, Robert van |
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O | China | 1200's (?) | Set in medieval China. Investigator is a magistrate. |
| Lathen, Emma |
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O | USA | 1960's - | |
| Ebersohn, Wessel |
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O | Southern Africa | 1970's - | Only novels in which Yudel Gordon is the 'principal' character are recommended |
| Block, Lawrence |
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PI | USA (East Coast) | 1970's - | Only novels featuring 'Scudder' are rated * |
| Cody, Liza |
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PI | England (mainly) | 1980's - | Only novels featuring 'Anna Lee' are rated * |
| Chandler, Raymond |
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PI | USA (California) | 1930's - 1950's | |
| Barnes, Linda |
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PI | USA | 1970's - |
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