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Raymond Chandler
US writer, very much the original pulp fiction writer, co-wrote for cinema and for pulp magazine. His best known success are The big sleep & Strangers in the train
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Agatha Christie
No list would be complete without the great-grand mother of whodunit, her best known characters are Miss Marple an elderly lady who sort all sorts of crime with only her power of deductions and the famous Belgium detective Hercule Poirot
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Michael Connelly
American author, his detective is called "Harry" Bosch, his books are known worldwide. Connelly started as a crime reporter, he has numerous awards attached to his name
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The Queen's novels
Ellery Queen is an unique detective imagined by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, cousins, who reach fame with their novels which are now blue prints for the genre
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Michael Dibdin
Best known for his Aurelio Zen stories, with an Italian back drop, Dibdin died in 2007 and his last novel appeared posthumously
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Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a Scottish writer, his fictional detective is "Rebus". throughout the series the detective's life unfold until his last case at the eve of Rebus retirement
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