By Series - Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction
- Agatha Christie
- Amanda Cross
- Anthony Berkeley
- Anthony Boucher
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Baroness Orczy
- Baynard H. Kendrick
- Bill Pronzini
- Chester Himes
- Christianna Brand
- Cornell Woolrich
- Daphne du Maurier
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dick Francis
- Donald E. Westlake
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- E. C. Bentley
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- E. W. Hornung
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Ed McBain
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Wallace
- Edward D. Hoch
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellery Queen
- Ellis Peters
- Elmore Leonard
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Erskine Childers
- Frederick Forsyth
- Fyodor Dostoevski
- G. K. Chesterton
- Gaston Leroux
- Georges Simenon
- Graham Greene
- Harry Kemelman
- Helen MacInnes
- Hillary Waugh
- Honoré de Balzac
- Ian Fleming
- James Hadley Chase
- James M. Cain
- James McClure
- Jim Thompson
- John Buchan
- John Creasey
- John D. MacDonald
- John Dickson Carr
- John le Carré
