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Adams, Richard: The Plague Dogs 437; Watership Down 437

Ainsworth, Harrison: Old St Paul’s 297

Aird, Catherine (pen name of Kinn McIntosh) 216–20, 465; The Religious Body 192

Allingham, Margaret 32, 111, 124–6, 207, 288, 317, 440, 465; Mystery Mile 124; The Tiger in the Smoke 124; Albert Campion 23

Ambler, Eric xiv, 38, 162–4, 238, 239, 265, 268, 466; The Mask of Dimitrios 162

Archer, Jeffrey: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less 28

Aristotle 18, 181, 327, 331–2, 390

Arnau, Frank: 3000 Years of Deception in Art and Antiques 201

Atwood, Margaret 28–9, 280

Auden, W. H. 10

Austen, Jane 16, 24, 288

Bagley, Desmond 195–200, 466; High Citadel 196; Landslide 108, 248; Running Blind 108, 195, 248; The Snow Tiger 196, 198; The Spoilers 197; The Vivero Letter 108, 248

Bardin, John Franklin: Devil Take the Blue Tail Fly 235

Barnard, Robert 153, 303, 429, 306–7, 466; Blood Brotherhood 191; Dead, Mr Mozart (as Bernard Bastable) 332; Death on the High C’s 191; ‘Growing Up to Crime’ 191; Mother’s Boys 306–7; Out of the Blackout 306; Political Suicide 306; Sheer Torture 307; A Talent to Deceive 152; Unruly Son 306

Barzun, Jacques: A Catalogue of Crime 240, 242

Bastable, Bernard see Barnard, Robert

Bell, Josephine 316

Benchley, Robert 310

Bennett, Arnold 238–9

Bentley, E. C.: Trent’s Last Case 135–6

Berkeley, Anthony (pen name of Anthony Berkeley Cox; also wrote as Francis Iles) xiv–xv, 54–5, 152–3, 238, 308, 332, 337, 466–7; Before the Fact (as Iles) 54–5; Malice Aforethought (as Iles) 54, 236, 238; ‘Plotting a Detective Story’ xviii; Trial and Error 303, 332, 333–5

Billingham, Mark xxi, 12, 63–7, 70, 405, 467; Tom Thorne 63–4

Bingham, John 8, 207, 268, 324; The Double Agent 268; Fugitive from Perfection 268; Murder Plan Six 8; ‘A Thriller a Day Keeps Crime at Bay’ 8

Binyon, T. J.: Murder Will Out 202

Blake, Nicholas (pen name of Cecil Day-Lewis) 10, 35–6, 207, 467; The Beast Must Die 36; A Penknife in the Heart 37; A Tangled Web 36–7

Bloch, Robert: Psycho 324

Booth, Stephen 405

Boswell, James: The Life of Samuel Johnson 328

Bradbury, Ray 434

Braithwaite, Oyinkan 15

Brand, Christianna 207–8, 220, 213–4, 467

Brett, Simon xviii, 303, 314, 355–62, 364, 367–8; After Henry 362; Cast, In Order of Disappearance 356; A Shock to the System 362; The Sinking Admiral xviii, 337; Charles Paris 180, 351–2, 355–7, 361, 391; Fethering series 391; Mrs Pargeter 361

Briggs, Asa 290

British Crime Writing Archives xvii

Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 139

Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights 133

Brook, Peter 150

Brookmyre, Chris 405

Brown, Fredric: ‘Don’t Look Behind You’ 315–16

Bruce, Leo: Case for Three Detectives 312

Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps 274

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Barsoom series 255

Burroughs, William 280

Butler, Gwendoline: A Coffin for Pandora 286

Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice 52

Camus, Albert: La Peste 57

Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany’s 325; In Cold Blood 325

Carr, John Dickson xvii, 207–8, 211–13, 285, 303, 368; ‘The Gentleman from Paris’ 329; The Hungry Goblin 329; Scandal at High Chimneys 329

Carter, Philip Youngman 338

Carver, Tania (pen name of Lynda and Martin Waites) 338

Catton, Eleanor: The Luminaries 16

Cavanagh, Steve: Twisted 16

Chandler, Glenn: Taggart 156

Chandler, Raymond 9, 11, 14, 24, 59, 103, 141–2, 149, 172, 185–6, 265, 318; The Big Sleep 53, 142, 391; The Lady in the Lake 265; ‘The Simple Art of Murder’ 2; Philip Marlowe 11, 143, 251

Charles, Kate (pen name of Carol Chase) 108–11, 468; Cruel Habitations 110; Deep Waters 110; A Drink of Deadly Wine 109; False Tongues 110; The Snares of Death, 109; Callie Anson 110

Charteris, Leslie 329

Chaucer, Geoffrey 301

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith xiv, xvii, 1–2, 18, 468–9; The Floating Admiral preface xviii; Father Brown 182, 312, 316

Child, Lee 399

Christie, Agatha xv, xvii, xx, 14, 32, 44, 63, 103, 135, 138, 147–9, 152–3, 155–6, 171, 200–1, 207, 216, 218, 231, 303, 312, 324, 338, 348, 466, 469, 476, 480; The ABC Murders 147; A Caribbean Mystery 88; Death Comes as the End 285; Lord Edgware Dies 149; Murder in Mesopotamia 88; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd xv, 135, 138, 148, 165; Murder on the Orient Express 324; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 216; Jane Marple 183, 303; Hercule Poirot 16, 174, 220–1, 303, 312, 338

Churchill, Winston 28, 386, 391

Clancy, Tom 399; The Hunt for Red October 402

Cleeves, Ann 83–8, 173, 425, 469; Blue Lightning 85; The Seagull 85; Shetland 83; Vera 83; Vera Stanhope 84–5; Jimmy Perez 84

Clewsey xii, xvi, 427

Cody, Liza xx, 138, 141–6, 425, 469–70; Dupe 143; Gimme More 145; Anna Lee 143–4, 184, 188; Birdie Walker 145; Eva Wylie / Bucket Nut trilogy 145; Lady Bag 146

Cole, G. D. H. and Margaret 338

Collins, Wilkie 102, 147, 247, 343; The Moonstone 136, 239; The Woman in White 226–7

Condon, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate 280

Connington, J. J. (pen name of Alfred William Stewart) 150–2, 153, 470; Alias J. J. Connington 150

Cooper, Natasha (pen name of Daphne Wright) 46–51, 470

Corder, E. M.: The Deer Hunter 437

Cox, Anthony Berkeley see Berkeley, Anthony

Crichton, Michael: The Andromeda Strain 386; Jurassic Park 386

Crisp, N. J.: The London Deal 438

Crispin, Edmund (pen name of Bruce Montgomery) 207–8, 209–10, 312, 363, 470; ‘The Drowning of Edgar Foley’ 209; ‘We Know You’re Busy Writing’ 363

Crofts, Freeman Wills 34–5, 150, 470; The Ponson Case 193

Crompton, Richmal: Just William 310–11

Crumley, James The Last Good Kiss 53

Curran, John: Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks 147; The Hooded Gunman 193

Cussler, Clive 251

Davey, Ed: The Killing Gene 250

Davidson, Lionel 248–9, 471; Kolymsky Heights 253; The Rose of Tibet 249

Davies, David Stuart 374–7, 471

Davis, Lindsey 102–8, 471; Falco: The Official Companion 285; Rebels and Traitors 297–8

Day-Lewis, Cecil see Nicholas Blake

De la Torre, Lillian: Dr Sam Johnson 328

Deighton, Len xv, 68, 192, 279, 401–2, 451–63, 453, 462, 471–2; Blitzkrieg 454; Blood, Tears and Folly 454; Bomber 401–2; Close-Up 457; ‘Even on Christmas Day’ 451; Fighter 458; Goodbye Mickey Mouse 458; MAMista 457; SS-GB 402; Winter 454; Yesterday’s Spy 459; Bernard Samson 461

Delafield, E. M.: Messalina of the Suburbs 324

DeLillo, Don 280

Denham, Bertie (Lord Denham) 442–3, 472; The Man Who Lost His Shadow 443; Derek Thryde 443

Detection Club collaborative works: The Floating Admiral xviii, 337; Motives for Murder xviii, 317; The Sinking Admiral, see under Simon Brett

Dexter, Colin 153, 247; Last Bus to Woodstock 30; The Wench is Dead 286; Sergeant Lewis 30; Inspector Morse 30, 70, 173, 180, 286

Dibdin, Michael The Dying of the Light 16

Dickens, Charles 9, 102, 288, 444–5; Oliver Twist 20

Doctorow, E. L. 166

Dolan, Eva 12

Doody, Margaret: Aristotle, Detective 332

Dostoevsky, Fyodor 10, 77; Crime and Punishment 19

Doyle, Arthur Conan 9, 135, 152, 329; Memories and Adventures 152; A Study in Scarlet 215; Sherlock Holmes 80, 152, 174, 200, 214–15, 230, 312, 316, 324, 339

Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca 226

Duffy, Stella xxi, 377–83, 472; Money in the Morgue (with Ngaio Marsh) 338

Dunn, Douglas: Terry Street 439

Earley, Pete: Comrade J 281

Eccles, Marjorie 70–6, 472; Abigail Moon 75; Gil Mayo 74–5; Martin Kite 75

Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose 16

Edwards, Martin xvii, 171, 425, 472–3; Dancing for the Hangman 325; Gallows Court 316; The Golden Age of Murder xvii; Mortmain Hall 316; Rachel Savernake 316

Edwards, Ruth Dudley 303, 308–, 473; Corridors of Death 312–13; Murdering Americans 313

Eliot, George: Middlemarch 402

Eliot, T. S. 193, 239

Ellin, Stanley 237–8; ‘The Speciality of the House’ 320

Ellis, Kate 155–62, 425, 429, 473; The Burial Club 160; A High Mortality of Doves 161; Albert Lincoln 160; Wesley Peterson 155

Ellroy, James: The Black Dahlia 324

Enright, Anne 386

Erskine, Margaret: Inspector Finch 78

Eustace, Robert (pen name of Eustace Robert Barton) 339; The Documents in the Case, see Sayers, Dorothy L.; ‘The Tea Leaf’ (with Edgar Jepson) 339

Faulkner, William 138

Fellowes, Jessica 405

Fielding, Henry 306

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 389

Fleming, Ian 329, 399, 453

Flint, Emma: Little Deaths 84

Flynn, Gillian: Gone Girl 98, 165, 231; Sharp Objects 84

Forster, E. M.: Aspects of the Novel 147

Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal 231, 436; The Devil’s Alternative 436

Foster, Alan Dean Alien 437

Francis, Dick 203, 255, 338, 438, 442; Dead Cert 263; High Stakes 438; In the Frame 438; Odds Against 256–61; Risk 438

Francis, Felix xv, 255–65, 338, 473; Gamble 261–2; Guilty, Not Guilty 264

Francis, Mary 338

Fraser, Anthea 38–43, 473; Eleven that Went Up to Heaven 42; The Macbeth Prophecy 41–2; A Necessary End 41; Whistler’s Lane 41; David Webb 40; Green Grow the Rushes series 42

Frayn, Michael: Headlong 203

Freeman, Richard Austin 2–5, 6-7, 191–2, 211, 474; Dr Thorndyke Intervenes 7, 191; The Red Thumb Mark 35

Fremlin, Celia 29–30, 242, 243–5, 474; The Hours Before Dawn 243; Seven Lean Years 243; Uncle Paul 243

Front, Jeremy 351, 357

Futrelle, Jacques 329

Fyfield, Frances 21–4, 108, 474; Helen West 21; Sarah Fortune 21

Galbraith, Robert 403

Gardner, Erle Stanley 186

Gash, Jonathan (pen name of John Grant) 202, 435–9, 474; Lovejoy 435

Gielgud, Val 347; Death at Broadcasting House (with Holt Marvell) 347

Gilbert, Anthony see Malleson, Lucy

Gilbert, Michael 265–6, 316, 318, 475; Crime in Good Company 207; ‘The Moment of Violence’ 265; They Never Looked Inside 267

Goddard, Robert 225–31, 475; One False Move 229

Goldman, William 399

Gosling, Paula 425, 433–5, 475; Fair Game 434; Monkey Puzzle 433–4; A Running Duck 433

Grady, James: Six Days of the Condor 281

Grafton, Sue: Kinsey Millhone 188

Granger, Ann 38, 43–6, 475; Flowers for His Funeral 45

Gray, Alasdair 15

Gray, Thomas 429

Greenaway, Peter van: Judas! 437

Greene, Graham 239, 367–8

Gregory, Susanna: A Summer of Discontent 297

Griffiths, Elly (pen name of Domenica de Rosa) 425, 444–51, 476

Gulik, Robert van: Judge Dee 328

Haggard, Henry Rider: King Solomon’s Mines 253

Hammett, Dashiell 9, 52, 329; The Glass Key 235; Red Harvest 51–2; the Continental Op 143; Sam Spade 143

Hannah, Sophie 221–4, 476; Waterhouse and Zailer 221; Hercule Poirot 338

Hare, Cyril (pen name of A. A. Gordon Clark) 265; ‘The Classic Form’ 207; Tragedy at Law 208

Harper, Tom (pen name of Edwin Thomas) 249–55, 338, 476; Black River 254; The Blighted Cliffs (as Thomas) 250; The Lazarus Vault; The Mosaic of Shadows 250; Zodiac Station 251

Harrington, William see Roosevelt, Elliott

Harris, Thomas: Silence of the Lambs 66, 324; Clarice Starling 66

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia 129–34, 476

Hartland, Michael (pen name of Michael Leonard James) 268–77, 477; Down among the Dead Men 270; Frontier of Fear 271; David Nairn 270

Harvey, John 51–4, 477

Hastings, Sir Patrick 36

Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train 98–9, 136, 231; Into the Water 136

Heald, Tim: The Rigby File 337

Heller, Joseph 280

Hemingway, Ernest 161, 199

Henry, O. 310

Herbert, Frank: Dune 437

Herriot, James 132

Herron, Mick 277–83, 477

Heyer, Georgette 288

Higgins, George V.: The Friends of Eddie Coyle 53

Highsmith, Patricia xvii, 161, 207, 239; Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction 34, 225; Strangers on a Train 37, 136; The Talented Mr Ripley 136; Tom Ripley 63, 241, 304

Hilary, Sarah 12

Hill, Reginald 16, 171, 174, 312, 428–33, 477; An Advancement of Learning 432; Another Death in Venice 432; A Clubbable Woman 432; Fell of Dark 432; ‘The Rio de Janeiro Paper’ 316; Traitors’ Blood 432; Dalziel and Pascoe 171, 303, 428–9; Joe Sixsmith 174

Hill, Suzette A. 369–74, 478

Hines, Joanna 392–5, 478; Surface Tension 392

Hitchcock, Alfred 225, 329

Hodgson, Antonia 403–13, 478

Hogg, James: Confessions of a Justified Sinner 14

Hornung, E. W.: Raffles 37

Horowitz, Anthony: The Magpie Murders 16; The Word Is Murder 16

Household, Geoffrey 242

Hubbard, P. M. 242, 436

Hughes, Thomas: Flashman 182

Hurd, Douglas: The Smile on the Face of the Tiger (with Andrew Osmond) 269

Iles, Francis see Berkeley, Anthony

Innes, Michael (pen name of J. I. M. Stewart) 207–8, 214–6, 312, 478

James, Bill (pen name of James Tucker) 67–70, 478; Halo Parade 68; The Lolita Man 67; Roses, Roses 53; You’d Better Believe It 68; Harpur and Iles 68

James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady 402

James, P. D. xx, 10–11, 16, 22–4, 33, 60–1, 76, 81–2, 97, 117, 184, 237, 479; Devices and Desires 82; Innocent Blood 81, 222–3; Unnatural Causes 81; Adam Dalgleish 70

James, Peter 26–9, 97, 479; Possession 26

James, Russell 413–19, 479

Jecks, Michael 111–17, 338, 425, 480; Act of Vengeance 111; The Last Templar 297

Jepson, Edgar: ‘The Tea Leaf’ (with Robert Eustace) 339

Jesse, F. Tennyson: A Pin to See the Peepshow 324

Johnson, Celia: This Happy Breed 132

Joseph, Alison 348–55, 425, 480; Mitchener: Black Box Detective (radio play) 349, 352–5; Agatha Christie 348; Sister Agnes 348

Kafka, Franz 374

Keating, H. R. F. 117, 170, 180, 317, 320–1, 480; Death and the Visiting Fireman 180; To Make a Killing 76; The Murder of the Maharajah 286; Writing Crime Fiction 8, 111, 255, 303, 385; Inspector Ghote 86, 180, 319; Mrs Craggs 319

Kelly, Mary xx, 97–8, 153–4, 480; Due to a Death 97; The Spoilt Kill 97, 153; Write on Both Sides of the Paper 97, 154

Kelman, James 15

Kerr, Philip 16

Kesey, Ken 280

King, Stephen 418; On Writing 390

Knight, Renee: Disclaimer 98

Knox, Alexander: Night of the White Bear 436–7

Knox, Ronald xiv; ‘Ten Commandments’ xiv–xv, 18, 46, 137, 308

Koch, Ed (with Herbert Resnicow and Wendy Corsi Staub): Ed Koch 330

Lahrs, John: Prick Up Your Ears 307

Larsson, Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 324

Laurence, Janet 30–4, 481; Writing Crime Fiction 30; Canaletto 32; Ursula Grandison 32

Lawrence, D. H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover 133

Laxness, Halldór: Independent People 91

Layamon: Brut 295

Le Carré, John (pen name of David Cornwell) 165, 279, 442, 450–1, 481; George Smiley 8, 324

Leacock, Stephen 310

Leonard, Elmore 387

Levin, Meyer: Compulsion 233

Lewin, Michael Z. 184–9, 425, 481; the Lunghis 184; Albert Samson 184, 187–9

Lewis, Margaret 285

London, Jack: ‘To Build a Fire’ 253

Lorac, E. C. R. see Rivett, Carol

Lotz, Sarah: The White Road 255

Lovesey, Peter 285–6, 323–32, 425, 481; Bertie and the Crime of Passion 331; Bertie and the Seven Bodies 311; Bertie and the Tinman 331; The False Inspector Dew 327; Wobble to Death 326; ‘Youdunnit’ 316; Bertie, Prince of Wales 328, 330–1; Sergeant Cribb 285, 326, 330

Lyall, Gavin 248, 442

McCall Smith, Alexander 17, 303–6, 482; Ramotswe stories 17

MacCannell, Daniel: Oxford: Mapping the City 278

McCarthy, Cormac: The Road 255

McDermid, Val 12, 16, 33, 98–102, 136, 173, 403, 482; A Darker Domain 101; The Mermaids Singing 100–1; A Place of Execution 101; The Vanishing Point 101; The Wire in the Blood 101; Writing Crime Fiction introduction 30

Macdonald, Ross 184–5

MacDonald Fraser, George: Flashman 182

McEnery, Jay 138

McGilloway, Brian 15

Mackintosh, Clare 403

McIlvanney, William 14; Jack Laidlaw 14

McKinty, Adrian 12, 15

MacLean, Alistair 251; Ice Station Zebra 263, 278–9

McPherson, Ben: A Line of Blood 98

Mailer, Norman 280

Malcolm, John (pen name of John Malcolm Andrews) 201–6, 482; Tim Simpson 205–6

Malleson, Lucy (also wrote as Anthony Gilbert and Anne Meredith) xx, 20

Mann, Jessica xx, 236–42, 363, 482–3; The Mystery Writer 236; The Private Inquiry 237; Telling Only Lies 364; The Voice from the Grave 237; Fidelis Berlin 237

Marjoribanks, Edward: The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall 326

Marsh, Ngaio xvii, 88, 193–5, 207, 338, 483; Money in the Morgue (with Stella Duffy) 338; The Nursing Home Murder (with Henry Jellett) 193; Off with His Head 193; Scales of Justice 195; Singing in the Shrouds 193; When in Rome 88

Marvell, Holt (pen name of Eric Maschwitz) see Gielgud, Val

Mason, A. E. W.: At the Villa Rose 151, 153

Masterman, J. C. 268

Masters, Priscilla 175–80, 483; Martha Gunn 175; Joanna Piercy 175; Claire Roget 175

Maupassant, Guy de 320

Meade, L. T. 339

Medieval Murderers: The Tainted Relic 338

Melville, James (pen name of Peter Martin) 174–5; Tetsuo Otani 175

Meredith, Anne see Malleson, Lucy

Meyer, Deon 15

Millar, Margaret 242; Beast in View 235

Milne, A. A. 308; The Red House Mystery 135

Mina, Denise 12

Mitford, Nancy 307, 442

Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme 137

Moody, Susan 180–4, 483; Quick and the Dead 181; Alex Quick 181; Cassandra Swann 183–4; Penny Wanawake 183

Moyes, Patricia 126–9, 207, 483; Dead Men Don’t Ski 126

Nair, Anita 16

Nash, Ogden 139

Neel, Janet (Baroness Cohen of Pimlico) 439–41, 484; Death on Site 441; Death’s Bright Angel 440–1; Ticket to Ride 441; A Timely Death 441

Neugroschel, Joachim: The Great Works of Jewish Fantasy and Occult 435

Neville, Stuart 15

O’Brien, Flann 309; The Third Policeman 165

Orton, Joe 307

Osmond, Andrew see Hurd, Douglas

Oswald, James 445

Paretsky, Sara: V. I. Warshawski 188

Pargeter, Edith see Peters, Ellis

Parker, Dorothy 310

Parker, Robert B.: Spenser 188

Patterson, James 338, 418

Peace, David 16

Pearce, Michael 286–8, 484

Pelecanos, George: The Turnaround 66–7

Penney, Stef: The Tenderness of Wolves 252

Pepys, Samuel 296, 298

Peters, Ellis (pen name of Edith Pargeter) 174; A Morbid Taste for Bones 174; Cadfael Chronicles 174, 285

Poe, Edgar Allan 102, 174, 329; ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 316; ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ 323; Auguste Dupin 316, 323

Price, Anthony 238, 286

Pullman, Philip 33

Pynchon, Thomas 280

Queen, Ellery 214

Rankin, Ian 8, 9–17, 21, 33, 173, 307–8, 448, 484; Hide and Seek 14; Knots and Crosses 13, 14; Inspector Rebus 12, 14, 251

Raymond, Derek 16

Reade, Charles 247

Reitlinger, Gerald: The Economics of Taste 201

Rendell, Ruth (also wrote as Barbara Vine) 70, 243–4, 303; A Demon in My View 241; A Judgement in Stone 55, 57; The Secret House of Death 221; The Speaker of Mandarin 88; Reg Wexford 70, 174, 180, 221

Resnicow, Herbert see Koch, Ed

Rhode, John 150

Ridpath, Michael 88–95, 484–5; Amnesia 95; Traitor’s Gate 94; Magnus 93

Rivett, Carol xx

Robbe-Grillet, Alain 16

Roberts, David 399–403, 485

Robertson, Imogen 288–95, 338, 485; Paris Winter 291–3

Robinson, Peter 55–61, 173, 485

Roosevelt, Elliott (with William Harrington): Eleanor Roosevelt 329–30

Rosten, Leo 310

Rowling, J. K. 16–17

Runcie, James 18–21, 108, 485; The Grantchester Mysteries 19; Canon Sidney Chambers 20

Runyon, Damon 309

Rushdie, Salman 420

Ryan, William 117–24, 485

Saki 310

Sallis, James: Drive 53

Sayers, Dorothy L. xiv, xvii–xviii, 21–2, 153, 237, 288, 339–46, 444, 486; Busman’s Honeymoon 131, 219; The Documents in the Case (with Robert Eustace) 136, 324–5, 339–46; The Omnibus of Crime 18–19, 135–6; ‘Plotting a Detective Story’ xviii; Lord Peter Wimsey 32, 174, 219, 312, 338, 340, 422

Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet 49; The Taming of the Shrew 128; Twelfth Night 380

Simenon, Georges 165; Maigret 241, 348

Simpson, Helen 444

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 296

Sjöwall, Maj, and Per Wahlöö: Roseanna 393; Martin Beck 393

Smith, Wilbur 251, 338; Hungry as the Sea 436; Monsoon 254

Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr: The Gulag Archipelago 435

Spark, Muriel 13, 16, 17, 307–8; The Driver’s Seat 16; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 13

Staub, Wendy Corsi see Koch, Ed

Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 14–15

Stoppard, Tom: The Real Inspector Hound 16

Stout, Rex 312

Stubbs, Jean: Dear Laura 286

Symons, Julian 10, 149, 207, 240, 231–6, 265, 303, 316, 486; The Blackheath Poisonings 286; Bloody Murder 255, 438; The Colour of Murder 236; Death’s Darkest Face 236; The Detling Murders 286; The Players and the Game 236; The Progress of a Crime 236; Sweet Adelaide 286; The Thirty-First of February 234

Taylor, Andrew 97, 164–71, 429, 486; An Air That Kills 168; Caroline Minuscule 164–5; Lydmouth series 168

Templeton, Aline 137, 486–7; The Darkness and the Deep 394

Tey, Josephine 329, 440; Inspector Grant 32

Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair 182

Thompson, Brian 53; Ladder of Angels 54

Thomson, June 76–80, 487; Inspector Finch (Rudd in UK editions) 76, 78; Making a Killing 76

Thorogood, Robert: Death in Paradise (BBC) 18

Thurber, James 310

Todorov, Tzvetan 150

Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace 402

Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces 402–3

Trollope, Anthony 147

Twain, Mark 179

Tyler, L. C. 295–301, 314, 487; A Cruel Necessity 300

Underwood, Michael (pen name of John Michael Evelyn) 332

Ustinov, Peter 126–7

Vickers, Roy (pen name of William Edward Vickers) 265, 317–19, 487; Some Like Them Dead (edited for the CWA) 318

Vickery, Amanda 290

Vincent, Sir Howard: The Police Code 326

Vine, Barbara see Ruth Rendell

Voltaire: Zadig ou la Destinée 215

Wahlöö, Per see Sjöwall, Maj

Wainwright, John 70

Waites, Lynda see Carver, Tania

Waites, Martyn 338, 364–9, 487–8; see also Carver, Tania

Walsdorf, John J. 236

Walsh, Jill Paton 174, 338, 419–23, 488; The Attenbury Emeralds 423; Knowledge of Angels 419–23; The Late Scholar 423; A Presumption of Death 423; Thrones, Dominations 422; Imogen Quy 423; Lord Peter Wimsey 338, 422–3

Watson, S. J. Before I Go to Sleep 99, 348

Watson, Tom 338

Waugh, Evelyn 306, 309

Welcome, John: Fred Archer: His Life and Times 331

Westlake, Donald E. 321

Whittle, David: Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin 363

Wilde, Oscar 27

Williams, Tad: Otherland series 255

Willis, Ted: Dixon of Dock Green 443

Wilson, Laura 243, 386–91, 425, 488

Wodehouse, P. G. 310–11, 399

Yorke, Margaret xx