Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936),
S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright), (1888—1939),
R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943),
Frances Noyes Hart (1890-1943),
Josephine Tey (1896–1952),
Noël Vindry (1896-1954)
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955),
E.C. Bentley (1875 -1956)
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957),
Ronald Knox (1888-1957),
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957),
Cyril Hare (1900-1958),
E.C.R. Lorac (1894-1958),
Patricia Wentworth (1877-1961),
Margery Allingham (1904–1966),
Anthony Berkeley (aka Francis Iles, 1893–1971),
Ellery Queen - Frederic Dannay (1905-1982)&Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971),
Georgette Heyer "Hair" (1902 -1974)
Dame Agatha Christie (1890–1976),
Philip MacDonald (1900–1980),
John Rhode (1884-1964),
Anne Hocking (1890–1966),
Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 -1971),
John Dickson Carr (1906-1977),
Edmund Crispin (1921-1978),
Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982)
Pierre Boileau (1906-1989),
Michael Innes (1906–1993),