Authors

• A New York Detective

  A pseudonymous byline used by the dime-novel publisher Frank Tousey for the long-running Brady detective series, written by anonymous ghost-writers from 1890 to 1924.

• Allan Pinkerton(1819–1884)

  Scottish-American detective (1819–1884), founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and author of popular memoirs reconstructing his agency's casework.

• Brander Matthews(1852–1929)

  Brander Matthews — author of detective fiction criticism. Stub created automatically by the article importer; flesh out in the studio.

• Cecil Chesterton(1879–1918)

  Cecil Chesterton — author of detective fiction criticism. Stub created automatically by the article importer; flesh out in the studio.

• G. K. Chesterton(1874–1936)

  G. K. Chesterton — author of detective fiction criticism. Stub created automatically by the article importer; flesh out in the studio.

• Major A. F. Grant

  Prolific dime-novel author whose stories of the detective Old Search appeared in the Old Cap Collier Library, the Norman L. Munro imprint that defined American detective serial fiction in the 1880s and 1890s.

• R. Austin Freeman(1862–1943)

  R. Austin Freeman — author of detective fiction criticism. Stub created automatically by the article importer; flesh out in the studio.

• Sax Rohmer(1883–1959)

  English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), best known for the Fu Manchu series. Bat Wing is one of his standalone mysteries blending detection with Caribbean voodoo.

• William ‘Wilkie’ Collins(1824–1899)

  Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright best known as a pioneer of detective fiction and sensation novels. He is the author of influential works such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, the latter often considered one of the first modern detective novels.