by The Purloined Letter Society (International)
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| Mayor, Archer |
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PO | USA (Vermont) | 1980's - | |
| Irvine, Robert |
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PI | USA (Utah) | 1980's - | Misogynistic bias?; or telling it like it really is? |
| Emerson, Earl |
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PI | USA (Seattle) | 1980's - | Only novels featuring 'Black' are rated *. |
| Greenleaf, Stephen |
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PI | USA (San Francisco) | 1970's - | Only the earlier novels featuring 'Tanner' are rated ** |
| Constantine, K C |
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PO | USA (Pennsylvania) | 1960's - | "Bottom Liner Blues" is not rated ***. |
| McBain, Ed |
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PO | USA (New York & Florida) | 1960's - | Pseudonym of Evan Hunter, also writer of general novels. Only earlier novels (to 1970?) are rated *. |
| Simon, Roger |
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PI | USA (mainly) | 1980's - | Only novels featuring 'Moses Wine' are rated *. |
| Burke, James Lee |
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PO | USA (Louisiana) | 1980's - | Only novels featuring 'Robicheaux' are rated **.'Swan Peak' is rated *. |
| Lewin, Michael Z |
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PI | USA (Indianapolis) | 1970's - | Only novels featuring 'Albert Samson' are rated **, others * |
| Himes, Chester |
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PO | USA (Harlem) | 1940's - 1960's | |
| Lutz, John |
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PI | USA (Florida) | 1980's - | |
| Block, Lawrence |
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PI | USA (East Coast) | 1970's - | Only novels featuring 'Scudder' are rated * |
| Dine, S S van |
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O | USA (East Coast) | 1920's - 1930's | "Upper-class" settings; convoluted plotting. |
| 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 * |
| Estleman, Loren |
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PI | USA (Detroit) | 1970's - | Only novels featuring 'Walker' are rated *. |
| Burns, Rex |
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PO | USA (Denver and rural Colorado) | 1970's - | |
| Waugh, Hillary |
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PO | USA (Connecticutt) | 1940's - 1970's | Only novels featuring 'Fellows' are rated **; others are rated *. |
| Paretsky, Sara |
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PI | USA (Chicago) | 1980's - | Some novels end in violent fantasies. |
| Gores, Joe |
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PI | USA (California) | 1950's - | Only novels featuring 'Kearney' are rated * |
| Chandler, Raymond |
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PI | USA (California) | 1930's - 1950's |
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