Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Otto Penzler, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, Georges Simenon, Anna Katharine Green, Wilkie Collins, Gertrude Stein, Dashiell Hammett, Leslie Charteris, C. Daly King, Gaston Leroux, Percival Pollard, Earl Derr Biggers, J.S. Fletcher, Fergus Hume, S.S. Van Dine, Arthur B. Reeve, Clayton Rawson, Frederick Irving Anderson, M.P. Shiel, Francoise-Eugene Vidocq