Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Agatha Christie, Donald E. Westlake, Truman Capote, John D. MacDonald, Bill Pronzini, Georges Simenon, Ross Macdonald, Stanley Ellin, Ian Fleming, James Holding, Daphne du Maurier, Arthur Porges, Ira Levin, Margery Allingham, Harry Kemelman, Marie R. Reno, George Fox, Thomas Kyd