Mystery Cats

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

Longtime mystery writer and editor Edward Dentinger Hoch was practically an institution in the field. Born in 1930, he published over eight hundred mystery stories including one in every issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine from 1973 to 1981. His TV writing credits include episodes of "MacMillan and Wife", "Night Gallery", the "Alfred Hitchcock Show", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Mr. Hoch served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote mysteries under the pseudonyms...

Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of novels and short stories of various genres including pulp fiction, juveniles, horror stories, and science fiction.

James Holding is the author behind Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine, a collection that delivers on its promise of spine-tingling stories. If you enjoy a good scare, his work is definitely worth checking out.

Joyce Harrington is the author of "The Sport of Crime," a gripping read for fans of suspense. Her work often explores the darker side of human nature.

Lilian Jackson Braun (1913-2011) was an American writer, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, best known for The Cat Who... series of light mystery novels. She wrote sports poetry as a teenager for The Detroit News, worked in advertising copywriting and public relations, and spent about three decades at the Detroit Free Press, where she edited the Good Living section. Her first three novels, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern and The Cat Who Turned On and Off, appeared b...

Lillian de la Torre was an American novelist and a prolific writer of historical mysteries. Her name is a pseudonym for Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue. Her most popular works were in a series of stories she wrote about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, under the title 'Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector'. She also wrote numerous books, short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, reviews for The New York Times Book Review, poetry and plays. She was a President of the Mystery Writers of America...

Margaret Maron is the author behind the popular A Study in Sherlock series. Fans of clever mysteries and classic detective fiction will find a lot to love in her work.

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular mora...

Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, also known as Patricia Moyes (19 January 1923 – 2 August 2000) was a British mystery writer. Her mystery novels feature C.I.D. Inspector Henry Tibbett. One of them, Who Saw Her Die (Many Deadly Returns in the USA) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971. Moyes was inducted into the Detection Club in 1971. In addition to the Tibbett mysteries, she also wrote several juveniles and short stories.

Roy Vickers is a pen name of William Edward Vickers. He was an English mystery writer who also used the pseudonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. From 1921 to 1965 he wrote over 70 crime novels and 80 short stories. - Wikipedia Vickers is best known in the United States for the terse, understated tales appearing in The Department of Dead Ends. A prolific writer, Vickers was capable of adopting many styles and exploring many themes within the ratiocinative genre...

Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (Wikipedia).

Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of r...