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| Author ↑ ↓ | Rating ↑ ↓ | Char. ↑ ↓ | Place ↑ ↓ | Period ↑ ↓ | Additonal Information |
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| Dibdin, Michael |
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PO | Italy | 1980's - | Only some novels featuring 'Zen' are rated **. . |
| Dine, S S van |
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O | USA (East Coast) | 1920's - 1930's | "Upper-class" settings; convoluted plotting. |
| Disher, Garry |
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PO | South-Eastern Australia | 1990's - | Only novels featuring 'Challis' are rated **. "Whispering Death" is not recommended. |
| Ebersohn, Wessel |
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O | Southern Africa | 1970's - | Only novels in which Yudel Gordon is the 'principal' character are recommended |
| Edwardson, Ake (T) |
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PO | Sweden (Gothenberg) | 1990's - | Flawed by excess of morbid psychology and largely irrelevant padding. "Death Angels" is not recommended |
| Emerson, Earl |
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PI | USA (Seattle) | 1980's - | Only novels featuring 'Black' are rated *. |
| Engel, Howard |
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PI | Canada | 1980's - | Authentic-feeling anglo-jewish milieu. |
| Eriksson, Kjell (T) |
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PO | Sweden | 2000's - | Rather like the curate's egg; flawed by excessive, morbid psychological maundering and unlikely physical encounters; mildly pornographic. |
| Estleman, Loren |
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PI | USA (Detroit) | 1970's - | Only novels featuring 'Walker' are rated *. |
| Forrest, Katherine V |
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PO | USA ( Los Angeles) | 1990's - | |
| Fowler, Christopher |
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PO | England | 1990's - | Eccentric, intellectual, British style,droll humour; only novels featuring 'Bryant' and 'May' are rated **. "Seventy-Seven Clocks" is not recommended |
| Freeling, Nicholas |
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PO | Netherlands & France | 1960's - 1990's | Only novels featuring 'van der Valk', 'Arlette' and 'Castaing' are rated *** |
| Freeman, Austin |
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O | England | 1920's - 1930's | |
| Garcia-Roza, Luiz (T) |
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PO | Brazil | 2000's - | Above average in most criteria but marred by pornographic sadism. |
| Gill, Bartholemew |
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PO | Ireland | 1970's - | The later novels are not recommended. |
| Gores, Joe |
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PI | USA (California) | 1950's - | Only novels featuring 'Kearney' are rated * |
| Grafton, Sue |
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PI | USA (California) | 1980's - | Only novels to "K" are rated * |
| Greenleaf, Stephen |
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PI | USA (San Francisco) | 1970's - | Only the earlier novels featuring 'Tanner' are rated ** |
| Greenwood, John |
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PO | UK (Yorkshire) | 1960's - 1980's | Pseudonym of J B Hilton. 'Tongue in cheek' style Only novels featuring 'Mosley' are rated ** |
| Gulick, Robert van |
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O | China | 1200's (?) | Set in medieval China. Investigator is a magistrate. |
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