Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
Noir fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction.
William Haggard was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, the son of the Rev. Henry James Clayton and Mabel Sarah Clayton. He was an English writer of fictional spy thrillers set in the 1960s through the 1980s, or, as the writer H. R. F. Keating called them, "action novels of international power." Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British Establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character in most of his novels is the urbane Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive,, who moves easily and gracefully along Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories, Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy. Ellroy's mother Geneva was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified. The book is Ellroy's account of his attempt to solve the mystery by hiring a retired Los Angeles County homicide detective to investigate the crime. Ellroy also explores how being directly affected by a crime shaped his life - often for the worse - and led him to write crime novels. The book is dedicated to his mother.
Otto Penzler is an American editor of mystery fiction, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946).
Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s.
A Right to Die is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1964.
S. J. Rozan is an American architect and writer of detective fiction and thrillers, based in New York City. She also co-writes a paranormal thriller series under the pseudonym Sam Cabot with Carlos Dews.
Griselda Gambaro is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their bodies and memorialize them. Her novel Ganarse la muerte was banned by the government because of the obvious political message.
Thomas Gerald Franklin is an American writer originally from Dickinson, Alabama, United States,.
The Echoing Strangers is a 1952 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the twenty fifth entry in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.
They Never Say When is a 1944 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the sixth in his series of novels featuring the London private detective Slim Callaghan, a British version of the increasingly popular hardboiled American detectives.
Uneasy Terms is a 1946 crime thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was the seventh and last in his series featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan, a British version of the hardboiled heroes of American writing.
The Exploits of Fidelity Dove is a mystery novel by William Edward Vickers. It was first published in 1924 under the pen name David Durham and then again in 1935 under Vicker's more popular pen name Roy Vickers. It is considered one of the rarest mystery books of the twentieth century.
She Faded into Air is a 1941 mystery novel by the British writer Ethel Lina White, originally published by the Collins Crime Club]. It received relatively mixed reviews, but White followed it up with her success Midnight House in 1942. Although published at the height of the Second World War, the novel makes no reference to the ongoing conflict, a common feature of wartime mystery and detective novels.
Dread Journey is a 1945 mystery thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes, noted for her hardboiled style. It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
The Bamboo Blonde is a 1941 American mystery thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes. It was a sequel to the author's 1940 debut novel The So Blue Marble, with the setting shifted from New York to the West Coast. It was written and set shortly before America's entry into World War II. It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
The Blackbirder is a 1943 mystery thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes. It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. It was one of several novels by Hughes set in the American Southwest.
The Davidian Report is a 1952 spy thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes. It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. While many of her previous works had been set during World War II, this shifted the focus to the early Cold War. It was her penultimate novel, followed after an eleven-year gap by The Expendable Man in 1963.
