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.
Subcategories
This category has only the following subcategory.
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- American mystery novelists (119 P)
Pages in category "American mystery writers"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 588 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- George Bagby (author)
- Donald Bain (writer)
- Deb Baker
- Nikki Baker
- John Ball (novelist)
- Todhunter Ballard
- Edwin Balmer
- Anna Maynard Barbour
- Nevada Barr
- Dean Barrett
- Carrie Bebris
- Jinx Beers
- Robert Leslie Bellem
- Jay Bennett (author)
- Carole Berry
- Flynn Berry
- William Gray Beyer
- Bob Biderman
- Cara Black (author)
- Michelle Black
- Suzanne Blanc
- Eleanor Taylor Bland
- Peter Blauner
- E. F. Bleiler
- Robert Bloch
- Lawrence Blochman
- Lawrence Block
- Ed Bodin
- Miriam Borgenicht
- J. S. Borthwick
- Anthony Boucher
- Leigh Brackett
- Lilian Jackson Braun
- Herbert Brean
- Sandra Bretting
- Steve Brewer
- Howard M. Brier
- Bill Brittain
- Viola Brothers Shore
- Dan Brown
- Fredric Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
- Howard Browne
- Margaretta Brucker
- Edna Buchanan
- Frederick Robert Buckley
- Alafair Burke
- James Lee Burke
- Jan Burke
- William J. Burns
- Barbara Ninde Byfield
- Rob Byrnes
C
- Paul Cain (writer)
- Rachel Caine
- Dorothy Cannell
- Lillian Stewart Carl
- P. M. Carlson
- Carleton Carpenter
- Jack Carr (writer)
- John Dickson Carr
- Gail Carriger
- John Franklin Carter
- Kathryn Casey
- Jessie Chandler
- Raymond Chandler
- Henry Chang
- Suzanne Chazin
- George C. Chesbro
- Jill Churchill
- Carol Higgins Clark
- Mary Jane Clark
- Donald Henderson Clarke
- Jane K. Cleland
- Blaize Clement
- Joe Clifford
- Harlan Coben
- Andrew Coburn (author)
- Margaret Coel
- Mark Coggins
- Octavus Roy Cohen
- Reed Farrel Coleman
- Kate Collins (author)
- Max Allan Collins
- Michael Collins (American author)
- Joseph Commings
- Sheila Connolly
- K. C. Constantine
- Ann Turner Cook
- Bruce Alexander Cook
- Thomas H. Cook
- Susan Rogers Cooper
- Rick Copp
- Tom Corcoran (writer)
- Lucy Cores
- Douglas Corleone
- Patricia Cornwell
- Lucha Corpi
- S. A. Cosby
- William R. Cox
- George Harmon Coxe
- Cleo Coyle
- Elizabeth Spann Craig
- Philip R. Craig
- Robert Crais
- Frances Crane
- Bill Crider
- Deborah Crombie
- Blake Crouch
- Jane Louise Curry
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- Barbara D'Amato
- Mary Daheim
- Ray Daniel (author)
- Avram Davidson
- Kenn Davis
- Kyra Davis
- Norbert Davis
- Frederica de Laguna
- Babs Hodges Deal
- William L. DeAndrea
- Jeffery Deaver
- David Debin
- Ed Dee
- Miriam Allen deFord
- Jane Dentinger
- August Derleth
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Franklin W. Dixon
- Joanne Dobson
- Paul Doiron
- James Doss
- Carole Nelson Douglas
- Theodora McCormick Du Bois
- Brendan DuBois
- Mikel Dunham
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- Terence Faherty
- Diane Fanning
- Adele M. Fasick
- Robert Fate
- Bill Fawcett (writer)
- Robert Ferrigno
- Robert L. Fish
- Joanne Fluke
- Allan Folsom
- Jeffrey Ford
- Michael Thomas Ford
- Katherine V. Forrest
- Suzanne Frank
- Laura Frankos
- Margaret Frazer
- David Freed (author)
- Morton Freedgood
- Brian Freeman (psychological suspense author)
- Dale Furutani
- Jacques Futrelle
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- Stephen Gaghan
- Yasmine Galenorn
- Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
- Meg Gardiner
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Brian Garfield
- William Campbell Gault
- Anne George (writer)
- Elizabeth George
- Kathleen George
- Shannon Gilligan
- Robert Goldsborough (writer)
- David Goodis
- Alan Gordon (author)
- Steven Gore
- Joe Gores
- Ron Goulart
- Chris Grabenstein
- Deborah Grabien