The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

* Rex Miller, former detective novelist and disc jockey

* Lady Peter Wimsey ( née Harriet Vane )-Successful detective novelist in her early thirties, newly married to Lord Peter after a stormy courtship.

" British crime novelist Margery Allingham wrote that Ellery Queen had " done far more for the detective story than any other two men put together ".

After her release from prison, Juliet Hulme travelled to the United States and went on to have a successful career as a historical detective novelist under her new name, Anne Perry.

This album was dedicated to Ken Millar, better known under his nom-de-plume as detective novelist Ross Macdonald.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

Special attention is given to Mr. Clancy, a detective novelist who enables Christie to include the same sort of parodies of her craft achieved in other novels through the character of Ariadne Oliver.

During a practice air raid, a young woman is murdered in the village, and Superintendent Kirk recruits Harriet to help solve the murder, partly because the police are too busy organizing all the changes necessitated by the war and partly because as the wife of a detective, and as a crime novelist, she is the best qualified person to find the murderer.

Nicolas Freeling, born Nicolas Davidson ( March 3, 1927 – July 20, 2003 ), was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels.

The novel features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver.

Lynx solicited an essay from Dorothy L. Sayers, the detective novelist and Christian apologist.

* In the manga ( 1994 onward ) and subsequent anime ( 1996 onward ) Detective Conan, the protagonist Shin ' ichi Kudō, chooses the pseudonym " Conan Edogawa ," taking parts of the names of the British detective novelist Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo as he frantically attempts to make up a name to cover up his identity after he shrinks into a young boy.

* Peter Robinson ( novelist ) ( born 1950 ), English-born Canadian-based detective novelist

Regency / detective novelist Georgette Heyer used the change that came in with the " New Coinage " as a plot twist in her 1954 novel The Toll-Gate.

* It is said that British crime novelist Agatha Christie stayed at The Winter Palace Hotel while writing her famous Poirot detective story Death on the Nile.

He Who Whispers is a mystery novel ( 1946 ) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr.

The Crooked Hinge is a mystery novel ( 1938 ) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr.

After finishing the Russia-set action film Treasure Raiders with David Carradine, Fenn starred in the Canadian psychological thriller Presumed Dead, opposite Duncan Regehr, as a detective working on a missing person case, who has to outwit a crime novelist.

* Fergus Hume-pioneering detective novelist

* Arthur Upfield, a detective novelist

The lanes, footpaths and woodlands around Condover and Bomere Pool featured in several of the medieval detective novels about Brother Cadfael by novelist Ellis Peters.

* " Ariadne Oliver ", a friend of the detective Hercule Poirot in many of his detective mysteries written by Agatha Christie.

* Ariadne Oliver, writer of popular detective fiction, untidy and somewhat ridiculous

* Ariadne Oliver, a writer of detective novels and a friend of Poirot

It features Hercule Poirot, her famous Belgian detective, and Ariadne Oliver.

It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver.

The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity.

It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver.

Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects / detective but it came to nothing ( Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran ).

Even in the one novel in which she appears without Poirot ( The Pale Horse ), Mrs Oliver does not function as a detective, in that she rarely participates in the investigation and contributes only tangentially to the solution.

Further functions of Mrs Oliver are to enable Christie to discuss overtly the techniques of detective fiction, to contrast the more fanciful apparatuses employed by mystery authors with the apparent realism of her own plots, and to satirise Christie's own experiences and instincts as a writer.

* Oliver Quendon's First Case, 1927 ( a romantic detective novel published under the pseudonym Cowdray Browne )

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

As a free-lance investigator, the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

The private detective is militant against injustice, a humorous and ironic explorer of the underworld ; ;

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Mr. Ferrell is a private detective, Hirey.

The second feature, `` The Price Of Silence '', is a British detective story that will talk your head off.

Usually, the detective either stumbles across the murder or is called upon by an old acquaintance, who is somehow involved.

In some cases this is with the collusion of the detective involved.

Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.