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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English author of crime fiction novels, poetry, plays, essays, translations and Christian humanism. Sayers is considered part of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She is best known for her mystery novels featuring Peter Wimsey, an amateur sleuth. Sayers has influenced many different major authors, including Stieg Larsson and […]
Ian Rankin has announced that the next Inspector Rebus novel, Standing in Another Man’s Grave will be released on November 8th.
Gregg Hurwitz is an American novelist and comic book writer. His novels fall into the crime fiction genre. He writes the Orphan X series and the Tim Rackley series. He has also written for several comic book series, including The Punisher MAX and Wolverine. He has also been a writer on the ABC television series […]
Craig Johnson is an American novelist of mystery novels set in the West. His series is the Walt Longmire series. His books have won several awards, including The Dark Horse being named one of the best books of 2009 by Publisher’s Weekly, Death Without Company winning the Book of the Year award from the Wyoming […]
Inspector Alan Banks is a fictional character featured in a series of novels as well as short stories by English-Canadian author Peter Robinson. After working in the Unsolved Crime Squad for the Metropolitan Police in London, Banks got sick and tired of the materialism of the big city, packed his bags and left for the […]
Peter Robinson was an English-Canadian author of crime fiction. Robinson’s main character was Inspector Alan Banks, who works as a the DCI in a fictional town outside of Yorkshire. Robinson left England for Canada in 1974, where he occasionally teaches crime writing at the University of Toronto.
Philip Marlowe is a fictional detective created by American author Raymond Chandler, and was later written by Robert B. Parker and Benjamin Black. The Philip Marlowe series is a hardboiled detective fiction series that actually started out as a series of short stories. Chandler would later cannibalize these stories into the first (and most famous) […]
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was an American novelist as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his hardboiled detective novels and stories (largely featuring Philip Marlowe) and influenced many people in different mediums, including authors Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly and filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers.
The Charlie Hood series is a series of crime fiction novels by American author T. Jefferson Parker. Charlie Hood, who works as a sheriff’s deputy, is the protagonist of the series. Much like most of Parker’s work, the series is set in Southern California (Los Angeles County).
T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist of police procedural novels. Parker’s books are set in Southern California, where he lives. His novels usually have a single protaganist, although part of the story is sometimes told from the antagonist’s viewpoint.