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Agatha Christie (full name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie) was a crime novelist from England, playwright, and storyteller widely known for detective novels and collections of short stories. A total of 66 novels and 14 stories revolve around the fictional characters, detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Fans of the murder mystery and crime thriller genre…

Peter Lovesey is an author who needs no introduction to aficionados of mystery and crime fiction novels. Popular around the world for his police proceedurals set in both the Victorian era, and in the present day, this author got much acclaim due to his most famous characters, Sergeant Cribb, and Peter Diamond, who is a…

Phyllis Dorothy James, also known as P.D. James was an English crime writer who rose to fame due to her infamous novel series starring police Commander Adam Dalgliesh. The fictional character is the central figure in 14 mystery novels, the first being “Cover Her Face,” which was released in 1962. P.D. James also released other…

For mystery and crime fiction lovers,  the mother and son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd, using the pen name Charles Todd, are a duo with no equal. Despite the fact that they write British mystery books, they are actually Americans who live on the east coast of the United States. The authors are…

If you are a true crime fiction aficionado, then Colin Dexter must be one of your beloved authors. Although he is most famously known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, he has written a few novellas and short stories as well. Colin Dexter is a prime example of the quote – “It is never…

Ruth Barbara Rendell was born on 17 February 1930 and was an English author of psychological murder mysteries. Her most notable creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, earned her global recognition by being the hero of many police procedurals. Some of these stories got adapted for TV in the late 1980s, which served to greatly increase the…