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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