Most authors deceased from "golden age flowering between the two World Wars", varied styles from two centuries: 1 The Longer View 1939 by Margery Allingham 1904-1966 2 The Little House 1927 by H.C. Bailey 1878-1961 3 Lucky Penny 1985 by Linda Barnes b.1949 4 Murder 1927* by Arnold Bennett 1867-1931 5 The Clever Cockatoo 1938 by E.C. Bentley 1875-1956 6 The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage 1914 by Ernest Bramah 1868-1942 7 The Silver Curtain 1991 by John Dickson Carr 1906-1977 8 Goldfish 1946 by Raymond Chandler 1888-1959 9 The Chief Mourner of Marne 1927 by G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936 10 The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest 1997 by Agatha Christie 1890-1976 11 Who Killed Zebedee 1881 by Wilkie Collins 1824-1889 12 Within the Gates 1953 by Edmund Crispin 1921-1978 13 Hunted Down 1859 by Charles Dickens 1812-1870 14 The Man with the Twisted Lip 1892 by Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 15 The Betrayers 1956 by Stanley Ellin 1916-1986 16 The Blue Sequin 1909 by R. Austin Freeman 1862-1943 17 The Oyster Catcher 1957* by Michael Gilbert 1912-2006* 18 Long Gone 1986 aka She Didn't Come Home by Sue Grafton 1940 19 A Man Called Spade 1932 by Dashiel Hammett 1894-1961 20 The Sapient Monkey 1892 by Headon Hill 1857-1927 21 A Question of Confidence 1972 by Michael Innes 1906-1994 22 Caught and Bowled, Mrs Craggs 1981 by H.R.F. Keating 1926-2011* 23 A Case of Butterflies 1989 by Peter Lovesey b.1936 24 The Homesick Buick 1950* by John D. MacDonald 1916-1986 25 Chapter and Verse: The Little Copplestone Mystery 1989 by Ngaio Marsh 26 Footprints in the Jungle 1951 by W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965 27 Sadie When She Died 1972 by Ed McBain 1926-2005* 28 Deadly Fantasies 1989 by Marcia Muller 1944 29 The Man in the Inverness Cape 1910* by Baroness Orczy 1865-1947 30 Mystery at the Library of Congress 1960 by Ellery Queen 1905-1971 & 1982* 31 Concrete Evidence 1993 by Ian Rankin 1960 32 When the Wedding Was Over 1979 by Ruth Rendell 1930 33 The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba 1928 by Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957 34 The Man in the Street 1947 by Georges Simenon 1903-1989 35 Pickup on the Dover Road 1981 by Julian Symons 1912-1994 * found elsewhere than in Acknowledgements