authors are best known for

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

A celebrity of golden age detective fiction

Samuel Dashiell Hammett

joined pinkerton national detective agency

had TB didnt live with his family

Phyllis Dorothy James

grew up in oxford England, dad didnt believe in higher ed. for girls

Agatha Christie

Queen of Crime

Best selling Novelist of all time

2 Billion Copies sold in 100 languages

pen name : Mary Westmacott

Dorothy Sayers

Firceful and opinionated figure in the detection club

one of the first women that graduated Oxford

GK Chesterton

Respected as an essayist and literary critic

master of mystery, detection, and theology

Sir author Conan Doyle

born in edinbuourgh (Irish catholic and poor)

his creation Sherlock is uppercrust

Rex Stout

roots in classic gent. detective and the hardboiled detective

famous for nero wolfe series

John Dickson Carr

the locked room or “the impossible” mystery was his forte.

his focus lead to an exhaustion of ideas; no one explored it further

Edgar Allen Poe

orphan raised his step parents.

poetry gothic horror, detective fiction, science fiction, literary criticism

Edmund Crispin

real name Robert Bruce Montgomery

wrote 9 novels and 2 collections of short stories under his pseudonym