Crime Thru Time's Authors A List

Megan Abbott Non-Series hardboiled/noir stories set in 1940s-1950 Hollywood	Die a Little [2005] The Song Is You [2007] Queenpin [2007]

Gilbert Adair Evadne Mount Trilogy Evadne Mount, "Dowager Duchess of Crime" best-selling classic mystery writer 1930s-1940s England	The Act of Roger Murgatroyd [2007] A Mysterious Affair of Style [2007]

Suzanne Adair Various inter-related protagonists frontier Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Cuba during the American Revolution, late 18thC	Paper Woman [2006] - Sophie Barton, 33 year old widow The Blacksmith's Daughter [2007] - Sophie's daughter Betsy Sheridan Camp Follower (forthcoming in 2008) - Helen, mistress of Sophie's brother David

Paul Adam (Non-Series) Andy Chapman, a British reporter, Elena Fiorini, prosecutor -Thriller/Espionage- corrupt Vatican politics 1944/45 World War II, Rome	Unholy Trinty [1999]

Harold Adams Carl Wilcox Sign Painter, Occasional Detective South Dakota - Great Depression	Murder [1981] Paint the Town Red [1982] The Missing Moon [1983] The Naked Liar [1985] The Fourth Widow [1986] The Barbed Wire Noose [1987] The Man Who Met the Train [1988] The Man Who Missed the Party [1989] The Man Who Was Taller Than God [1992] A Perfectly Proper Murder [1993] A Way With Widows [1994] Ditched Blonde [1995] Hatchet Job [1996] The Ice Pick Artist [1997] No Badge, No Gun [1998] Lead, So I Can Follow [1999]

Mary Jo Adamson Michael Merrick, reporter for the Boston Independent Cambridge and Hancock MA mid 19th C	The Blazing Tree [2000] The Elusive Voice [2001]

Rennie Airth Inspector John Madden England 1921 - 1932	River of Darkness [1999] The Blood-Dimmed Tide [2003]

Boris Akunin 1 (Pen name for Grigory Chkhartishvili) Andrew Bromfield, Translator) Erast Fandorin Moscow Police Investigator Czarist Russia Late 19th Century	The Winter Queen [2003] Murder on the Leviathan [2004] Turkish Gambit [2004] The Death of Achilles [2005] Special Assignments (The Jack of Spades & The Decorator) [2007] The State Counsellor [2008] Coronation, or The Last of the Romanovs [not yet translated into English] The Mistress of Death [not yet translated into English] Lover of Death [not yet translated into English] Diamond Chariot [not yet translated into English]

Boris Akunin 2 (Pen name for Grigory Chkhartishvili) Andrew Bromfield, Translator) Sister Pelagia, a young nun who teaches gymnastics and literature 19th-century Russia	Pelagia and the White Bulldog [2006] Pelagia and the Black Monk [2007] Pelagia and the Red Rooster [2008]

Susan Wittig Albert (aka Robin Paige with Bill Albert) Beatrix Potter Writer and illustrator Lake District England, 1905	The Tale Of Hill Top Farm [2004] The Tale of Holly How [2005] The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood [2005] The Tale of Hawthorn House [2007] The Tale of Briar Bank [2008]

Jack Alcott (Non-series) The young Edgar Allan Poe And young Lt. Robert E. Lee West Point, NY 1831	Grim Legion [2006]

Bruce Alexander Shelby Peck's Site: Officially sanctioned by Alexander Sir John Fielding, Judge 18th Century (1700's) London, England	Blind Justice [1994] Murder in Grub Street [1995] Watery Grave [1996] Person or Persons Unknown [1997] Jack, Knave and Fool [1998] Death of a Colonial [1999] The Color of Death [2000] Smuggler's Moon [2001] Experiment in Treason [2002] The Price of Murder [2003] Rules of Engagement [2005]

Lawrence Alexander Teddy Roosevelt while police commissioner of New York City mid-1890s	The Big Stick [1986] Speak, Softly [1987] The Strenuous Life [1992]

Tasha Alexander Emily Bromley The young widow of Philip, Viscount Ashton Victorian England and Greece	And Only to Deceive [2006] A Poisoned Season [2007] A Fatal Waltz [2008]

Conrad Allen (aka Keith Miles, Edward Marston) American George Porter Dillman Former Pinkerton agent Early 1900's, Famous Ships	Murder on the Lusitania [1999] Murder on the Mauretania [2000] Murder on the Minnesota [2002] Murder on the Caronia [2003] Murder on the Marmora [2004] Murder on the Salsette [2005] Murder on the Oceanic [2006] Murder on the Celtic [2007]

Tricia Allen David Weather Assistant District Attorney Dallas, Texas 1947	Texas Weather [2000] A Well-Respected Dead Man [2003]

Susanne Alleyn Aristide Ravel, freelance agent for the Parisian police (aka police spy) Revolutionary Paris, France 1796	Game of Patience [2006] A Treasury of Regrets [2007] The Cavalier of the Apocalypse (Forthcoming)

E. M. A. Allison (Mary Ann and Eric Allison) (Non-series) Brother Barnabas Cistercian monk 1379 England	Through the Valley of Death [1983]

Kingsley Amis (Non-series) Peter Furneaux 14-year-old schoolboy Suburban Post WW II Britain	The Riverside Villas Murder [1973]

James Anderson The Alderley Mysteries The Earl of Burford and Inspector Wilkins 1930s England	The Affair of the Blood Stained Egg Cosy [1975] The Affair of the Mutilated Mink Coat [1981] aka The Affair of the Mutilated Mink The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks [2003]

Val Andrews Sherlock Holmes Pastiches Victorian, various locations	Sherlock Holmes: and the Charlie Chaplin Mystery and the Eminent Thespian [1988] and the Brighton Pavilion Mystery [1989] and the Egyptian Hall Adventure [1993] and the Houdini Birthright [1995] and the Man Who Lost Himself [1996] and the Yule-tide Mystery [1996] and the Circus of Fear [1997] and the Greyfriars School Mystery [1997] and the Theatre of Death [1997] and the Sandringham House Mystery [1998] and the Baker Street Dozen [1999] at the Varieties [1999] on the Western Front [1999] and the Tomb of Terror [2000] The Torment of Sherlock Holmes [2000] and the Longacre Vampire [2001] and the Holborn Emporium [2001] and the Secret Seven [2001] The Ghost of Baker Street [2006]

Anna Apostolou (aka Paul Doherty - Series continues under Doherty) Alexander the Great Ancient Greece, 336 B.C.	A Murder in Macedon [1997] A Murder in Thebes [1998]

Lisa Appignanesi (aka Elsbieta Borenztejn) Belle Epoque Mysteries Not a true series, but same setting and shared characters fin-de-siecle Paris 1899-1900	Paris Requiem [2004] - Bostanian lawyer James Norton Unholy Loves [2007] - Marguerite de Landois

T. J. Armstrong Brother Wilfridus and defrocked monk Brother Thomas Canterbury, 1235	Cecilia's Vision [2001]

Suzanne Arruda Jade del Cameron, Great War Survivor and drifter part of "The Lost generation" Africa 1919	Mark of the Lion [2006] Stalking Ivory [2007] The Serpent's Daughter [2008]

Maureen Ash Bascot de Marins Templar Knight recovering from long imprisonment in the Holy Lands England, 1st decade 13th C	The Alehouse Murders [2007] Death of a Squire [2008]

Mike Ashley (Editor of Historical Anthologies)	The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits [1993] Of Historical Detectives [1995] Of Classical Whodunnits [1996] Of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures [1997] Of Shakespearean Whodunnits [1997] Of Shakespearean Detectives [1998] Of Royal Whodunnits [1999] Of More Historical Whodunnits [2001] Of Egyptian Whodunnits [2002] Of Ancient Roman Whodunnits [2003] Of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits [2004] Of Historical Whodunnits: vol. 3 [2005] (US Edition: Of New Historical Whodunnits) Of Jacobean Whodunnits [2006] Of Dickensian Whodunnits [2007]

David Ashton Inspector James McLevy (fiction based on the casebook kept by a real life Victorian detective by that name) Edinburgh, Scotland 1880s	Shadow of the Serpent [2006] Fall from Grace [2007]

Gertrude Atherton (Non-Series) Pomponia, 16 year old niece of the satirist Horace Rome 19-20 BC (First Roman Mystery told from a woman's point of view)	The Golden Peacock [1936]

Ace Atkins 1 (Non-Series) Fictionalized account of the unsolved Charlie Wall murder Detective Ed Dodge and L.B. Turner, reporter Tampa, FL 1955	White Shadow [2006]

Ace Atkins 2 (Non-Series) Ensemble cast noir crime novel set in real life 1955 Phenix City, Alabama "The Wickedest City in America," per Look Magazine	Wicked City [2008]