Jules Maigret
Commissaire Maigret
Inspector Maigret
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Sayers
Dorothy Sayers
S. S. Van Dine
Willard Huntington Wright
Wright
Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane
Spillane
fictioner
fictionmonger
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
France
policier
Raymond Chandler
Anatole France
Chandler
hero
Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Ivanhoe
novelettist
Don Quixote
Simenonian
tragedian
Jean Genet
Genet
Emile Gaboriau
Erle Stanley Gardner
Gaboriau
brain heavy
Gardner
murder book
novelwright
fanfic
fanficcer
novelist
nonnovel
bizarro
Leonard
Elmore Leonard
James Bond
Dutch Leonard
Gustave Flaubert
Perry Mason
Flaubert
Plautus
Bond
Titus Maccius Plautus
Elmore John Leonard
essayist
stagewright
big bad
Mrs. Henry Wood
Ellen Price Wood
Wood
Ellen Wood
litterateur
William Wilkie Collins
Jules Verne
Wilkie Collins
metahistorical romance
Collins
Verne
turg
picaresque
dick
gumshoe
thrillerdom
Alexander Woollcott
Fielding
Jack the Ripper
novel
Woollcott
hawkshaw
Henry Fielding
murdermonger
Alfred Hitchcock
Micawber
Trollope
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace
Fagin
Wallace
Anthony Trollope
Wilkins Micawber