Category:American mystery writers
Mystery fiction is a literary genre in which a story's protagonist investigates a puzzling event requiring an explanation or solution. Almost all examples of mystery fiction focus on the investigation of one or more crimes and thus fall within the broader field of crime fiction. Authors of crime fiction in which mystery investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather, The Postman Always Rings Twice) should be named only in the appropriate category, Category:American crime fiction writers, not as "mystery" writers.
This category should include writers who wrote mysteries in any medium, whether it be novels, short stories, poems, plays, screen plays or some other form.
Pages in category "American mystery writers"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 599 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Abigail Padgett
- Katherine Hall Page
- Stuart Palmer (author)
- Sara Paretsky
- Barbara Parker (writer)
- I. J. Parker
- Robert B. Parker
- T. Jefferson Parker
- Brad Parks
- P. J. Parrish
- Richard North Patterson
- Eliot Pattison
- Barbara Paul
- Rebecca Pawel
- Hayford Peirce
- George Pelecanos
- Joanne Pence
- Hugh Pendexter
- Sarah Penner
- Kenneth Perkins
- Thomas Perry (author)
- M. William Phelps
- Judson Philips
- Gary Phillips (writer)
- Thomas Piccirilli
- Nancy Pickard
- John Pielmeier
- Stefanie Pintoff
- Neil S. Plakcy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Zelda Popkin
- Genevieve Pou
- Richard S. Prather
- James Preller
- Margaret Press
- E. Hoffmann Price
- Edith Ballinger Price
- Bill Pronzini
- D.M. Pulley
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- Lev Raphael
- Clayton Rawson
- Deanna Raybourn
- Jean M. Redmann
- Arthur B. Reeve
- Ben Rehder
- Kathy Reichs
- Robert Reuland
- James Reynolds (artist)
- Craig Rice (writer)
- Virginia Rich
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Ronald Clair Roat
- Les Roberts (mystery novel writer)
- Keith Robertson (writer)
- Lynda Suzanne Robinson
- Marie Rodell
- Joel Townsley Rogers
- Al Roker
- Elliott Roosevelt (general)
- Mary Rosenblum
- Ann B. Ross
- Kate Ross
- Holly Roth
- Jeff Rovin
- Laura Joh Rowland
- S. J. Rozan
- Jane Rubino
- Leslie Rule
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Alan Russell
- Ray Russell
- Hank Phillippi Ryan
- P.B. Ryan
- Patricia Ryan (author)
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- Noel Everingham Sainsbury
- Anna Salter
- Thomas Sanchez (writer)
- Lawrence Sanders
- John Sandford (novelist)
- Al Sarrantonio
- Roger Scarlett
- Bernard J. Schaffer
- Harold Schechter
- Sandra Scoppettone
- Lisa Scottoline
- Mabel Seeley
- Andrew Shaffer
- Joseph Shallit
- John Shannon (novelist)
- Robert Sheckley
- Perley Poore Sheehan
- Rick Shefchik
- Mary Francis Shura
- Celestine Sibley
- Roger L. Simon
- Daniel Simone
- Elizabeth Sims
- Loren Singer
- Edith Skom
- Henry Slesar
- April Smith (writer)
- Julie Smith (novelist)
- Kay Nolte Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Sarah Smith (writer)
- Terrence Lore Smith
- Donald J. Sobol
- Peter Spiegelman
- Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Nancy Springer
- Mary Stanton
- Vincent Starrett
- Chester K. Steele
- Jeanne C. Stein
- Dorothy Sterling
- Richard Martin Stern
- John E. Stith
- Manning Lee Stokes
- David Stout
- Rex Stout
- John Straley
- Peter Straub
- T. S. Stribling
- Andrew E. Svenson
- Peter Swanson
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- Marcia Talley
- Bernard J. Taylor
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Darwin Teilhet
- Sheri S. Tepper
- Boston Teran
- Heather Terrell
- Lee Thayer
- Pamela Thomas-Graham
- Frankie Thomas
- Will Thomas (novelist)
- Thomas Thompson (American author)
- Ernest Tidyman
- Mark W. Tiedemann
- Ronald Tierney
- Theodore Tinsley
- S. D. Tooley
- P. J. Tracy
- Lawrence Treat
- Trevanian
- Margaret Truman
- Tom Tryon
- Wilson Tucker (writer)
- W. C. Tuttle
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- Lea Wait
- Ayelet Waldman
- Ann Waldron
- Barbara Brooks Wallace
- F. L. Wallace
- J. H. Wallis
- Ruth Sawtell Wallis
- Howard Wandrei
- Robert Ward (novelist)
- Penny Warner
- Betty Webb
- Don Webb (writer)
- Jack Webb (novelist)
- Heather Webber (author)
- Frances Shelley Wees
- Carolyn Wells
- Andrew Welsh-Huggins
- Jeri Westerson
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Phyllis A. Whitney
- Collin Wilcox (writer)
- Kate Wilhelm
- Charles Willeford
- Chris Wiltz
- Anne Wingate
- Don Winslow
- Jacqueline Winspear
- Max Wirestone
- Paula L. Woods
- Stuart Woods
- Cornell Woolrich
- Reavis Z. Wortham
- M. K. Wren