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poets who wrote mystery
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Phyllis Ann Karr
Phyllis Ann Karr (born 1944)

poet

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100 Malicious Little Mysteries
The King Arthur companion
Wildraiths Last Battle
The Arthurian Companion (Pendragon, 6208)
Lady Susan
Frostflower and Windbourne
The Idylls of the Queen
At Amberleaf Fair
Frostflower and Windbourne
The Arthurian Companion
Frostflower And Thorn
Perola
At Amberleaf Fair
The Follies of Sir Harald
Vampire of the Savoy
Idylls of the Queen
THE ELOPEMENT
Toymaker's Castle
Frostflower/windbourn
Panjandrum of Toboku
The Gallows in the Greenwood
Frost flower and thorn
Loon Lake Lodge
Bucketheads In Oz
Frostflower and Thorn
All But a Pleasure: An Alternate-History Role-Playing Romance Murder Mystery
The Deathguards
Bloody Herring
At Amberleaf Fair
Inquisitor Dreams
Droodology
All but a Pleasure
My Lady Quixote (Coventry Romances; 35)
S. J. Rozan
S. J. Rozan (born 1950)

poet

  • University at Buffalo, Oberlin College

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Inherit the dead
A Study in Sherlock
A bitter feast
Reflecting the Sky
Stone quarry
The Shanghai Moon
No colder place
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Winter and night
Concourse
China trade
Winter and Night (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
Mandarin plaid
China Trade (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
Trail of Blood
On the Line
Bronx Noir
No colder place
Ghost hero
Stone Quarry (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
Out for Blood
USA noir
Mandarin Plaid
The Shanghai Moon (Lydia Chin / Bill Smith #9)
Blood ties
A Bitter Feast (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
In this Rain
Absent Friends
Home improvement
The dark end of the street
Bronx noir
Winter And Night (Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel)
Bronx Noir (Akashic Noir)
Event Horizon
On the line
Empty Ever After Moe Prager Mysteries Paperback
Negocios Orientales (Calle Negra)
A Tale About A Tiger
No Colder Place (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
Reflecting the sky
Mandarin Plaid (A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel)
The Shanghai Moon
Winter And Night (Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel)
A bitter feast
Stone quarry
Concourse
Winter and night
Invierno Y Noche/ Winter and Night
The grift of the magi
No colder place
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

poet, journalist, humorist

  • University of Oxford, St Paul's School

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Detective stories
Trent's Last Case
Trent Intervenes
The Scoop & Behind the Screen
Trent's Own Case
Three Famous Murder Novels
Elephant's work, an enigma
The first clerihews
Clerihews complete
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Peace year in the City, 1918-1919
The complete clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley
Classic Whodunit? Stories
Those days
Biography for beginners, being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of upper forms
Trent's case book
These chariots of fire
More biography
Letters from mother
Baseless biography
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

poet

  • Green Mountain College

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The Leavenworth case
A strange disappearance
The Chief Legatee
The millionaire baby
The circular study
Dark hollow
The golden slipper and other problems for Violet Strange
Initials Only
A difficult problem
Agatha Webb
The Mayor's Wife
The old stone house and other stories
One of my sons
The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life
Hand and ring
The mill mystery
Great Classic Mysteries
The forsaken inn
That Affair Next Door
Room number 3, and other detective stories
The doctor, his wife and the clock
The house of the whispering pines
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane
The step on the stair
Great Short Stories [sample book]
Librivox Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 003
Hermit of ------ Street
Bronze Hand
Cynthia Wakeham's money
Masterpieces of mystery
Gray Madam
The Woman in the Alcove
Great Classic Mysteries II
Lost man's lane
Detective, Mystery, Crime, and Horror Books on CD
The Filigree Ball
X.Y.Z
The amethyst box
Classic Detective Stories. 3/3
Three thousand dollars
Risifi's daughter
Mystery Stories of Violet Strange
A matter of millions
The Anna Katherine Green 2-In-1 Special
Marked "personal"
Doctor Izard
The defence of the bride
To the minute, Scarlet and black
The house in the mist
7 to 12
Behind closed doors
Miss Hurd
Collected Works of Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack,
Complete Amelia Butterworth Mystery Series
V labirintie griekhov
That affair next door
Travma
The step on the stair
PARANOYA
Saplanti
Behind closed doors
Labirent
Agatha Webb
Psikopat
Tukenis
Doctor Izard
Marked "personal,"
Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)

poet, actor

  • Barnard College

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The white cliffs
The Happiest Time of Their Lives
The Beauty And The Bolshevist
Ladies Must Live
Are women people?
Things
Less than kin
Manslaughter
Come out of the kitchen!
Things
Are Women People? A Book Of Rhymes For Suffrage Times
Ladies Must Live
Women are people!
Rose Marie
The charm school
Come Out of the Kitchen
The Beauty and the Bolshevist
Cinderella
The Burglar and the Blizzard (A Christmas Story)
Ladies Must Live
Manslaughter
Cinderella
Are Parents People?
The White Cliffs, etc. A poem
The White Cliffs by Miller, Alice Duer
Marriage
The Burglar and the Blizzard
The white cliffs
I Have Loved England . . .
The priceless pearl
The Blue Arch
Are Women People
Are parents people?
Barnard College
Woman Are People
Beauty and the Bolshevist
The White Cliffs
Are Parents People?
Priceless Pearl
Cinderella
The Happiest Time of Their Lives
Calderon's Prisoner
Come Out of the Kitchen!
Things
Instruments of Darkness
Come Out of the Kitchen
Charm School
Calderon's prisoner
Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance
Women Are People!
Are Women People?
I have loved England ..
Charm School
Forsaking all others
Barnard College - The First Fifty Years
The Happiest Time of Their Lives
White Cliffs
Blue Arch
Burglar and the Blizzard
The white cliffs
Are Women People?
Wings in the night
The White Cliffs
Come Out of the Kitchen
The Whife Cliffs
The White Clifffs
Manslaughter [FACSIMILE]
The Burglar And The Blizzard
Are Women People
Ladies Must Live
Happiest Time of Their Lives
The White Cliffs Limited Edition
The Modern Obstacle
Are Women People?
Come Out of the Kitchen A Romance
Forsaking All Others
Burglar and the Blizzard
Come Out of the Kitchen!
Priceless Pearl
Modern Obstacle
Beauty and the Bolshevist
Less Than Kin
Are Parents People?
Ladies Must Live
Taxi
The reluctant duchess
The rising star
The springboard
Summer holiday
Forsaking all others
Five little heiresses
Selected poems
Overheard in a conservatory ; and, A dialogue
Unauthorised interviews
The white cliffs
Ladies must live
Come out of the kitchen!
Instruments of darkness, and other stories
Manslaughter
The blue arch
Death sentence
Come out of the kitchen!
Irene (1940)
Green isle
Hit and run
The modern obstacle
Louis Couperus
Louis Couperus (1863-1923)

poet

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The hidden force
Extaze
Psyche
The inevitable
De stille kracht
The tour, a story of ancient Egypt
Eline Vere
Old people and the things that pass
Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid
De komedianten
Mijn vriend Orlando
Dionyzos
Legenden van de blauwe kust
The hidden force
Van oude mensen de dingen die voorbijgaan
Nagelaten werk
Waarde heer Veen
Wereldvrede ..
Volledige werken Louis Couperus
Louis Couperus en L.J. Veen
Volledige werken
Waarde heer Veen
The twilight of the souls
Een lent van vaerzen
Psyche en Fidessa
Eene illuzie
Die langen Linien der Allmählichkeit
Over lichtende drempels
Dr. Adriaan
Majesteit
Van week tot week
Sprookjes
Fate
Small souls
Tussen Alexandrië en Londen
The comedians
Reis-impressies
Metamorfoze
Aan den weg der vreugde
The law inevitable
The later life
Eline Vere
Eline Vere
Met Louis Couperus in Afrika
De boeken der kleine zielen
Extaze
Majesty
Psyche (Jewel)
Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid
Ecstasy: a study of happiness
Old people and the things that pass
De verliefde ezel
Brieven van den nutteloozen toeschouwer
Il mago
Orchideeën
Endymion
Couperus in Nijmegen. Arnaldo en Candido
Old people and the things that pass
Nippon
Als ik, bij voorbeeld, de geest van mijn moeder op den rand van mijn bed zag zitten
Als ik, bij voorbeeld, de geest van mijn moeder op den rand van mijn bed zag zitten
De ongelukkige
Footsteps of fate (Noodlot)
Spaansch toerisme
De berg van licht
Noodlot
Van oude mensen, de dingen, die voorbijgaan
Legende, mythe en fantazie
Verzamelde werken
Aan de weg der vreugde
The comedians
Genève, Florence
Verzamelde werken
Metamorfose
Eastward
Couperiana
Eighteen tales
Iskander
Metamorfoze
Ongebundeld werk
Het zwevende schaakbord
Uit blanke steden onder blauwe lucht
Zo ik iéts ben ..
Arrogance
Zo ik iéts ben ..
Babel
Gedachten van Louis Couperus
De komedianten
De zoon van Don Juan en andere verhalen
Schimmen van schoonheid
Elane Vere
Hooge troeven
The tour
De onbekende Couperus
De antieke verhalen
Als ik bij voorbeeld, de geese van mijn moeder op den rand van mijn bed zag zitten okkulte knipsels uit Couperus
Lucrezia
Dionyzos
Hoe een roman wordt geschreven
The book of the small souls
Wreede portretten
The tour
Fantasia
Williswinde
Fidessa
Korte arabesken
Majesteit ..
Van en over alles en iedereen
De stille kracht
Eline vere
Van oude mensen, de dingen die voorbijgaan
De ode
Pscyhe
Met Louis Couperus in Afrika
Psyche ...
Omnibus
Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid
Het heilige weten
(Eene) illuzie
De kleine zielen
Herakles
Babel
Rome
Endymion
Antiek toerisme
Antiek toerisme
Antieke verhalen
De zoon van Don Juan, en andere verhalen
Helan xian dai duan pian xiao shuo jing xuan =
The inevitable
Il mago
Extaze
Nachtelijke gedaanten
Epigrammen
Een lent van vaerzen
Op reis
Orchideeën
Van oude mensen de dingen die voorbijgaan
Unter Javas Tropensonne
Oranda no bungō ga mita Taishō no Nihon
Eline Vere
Als ik, bij voorbeeld, de geest van mijn moeder op den rand van mijn bed zag zitten
God en goden
Psyché
Van en over mijzelf en anderen. 2e bundel
De tooveressen
Ongepubliceerd werk
Antiek toerisme
The twilight of the souls
DE TWEELINGBROEDERS
Small souls
Korte arabesken
Ecstasy
Legenden van de Blauwe Kust
HET SNOER DER ONTFERMING EN JAPANSE LEGENDEN
Zielenschemering
Dionyzos
Majestät
Van oude menschen, de dingen, die voorbij gaan...
Old people and the things that pass
Omnibus
Hooge troeven ...
Met Louis Couperus naar Indië
Als ik, bijvoorbeeld, de geest van mijn moeder op den rand van mijn bed zag zitten
Reis-impressies
Arthur Stringer
Arthur Stringer (1874-1950)

poet

  • University of Toronto

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Red wine of youth
The door of dread
The prairie wife novel
Never-Fail Blake
The prairie child
The prairie stories
Open water
Loom of Destiny
Twin tales
A woman at dusk
The wire tappers
Phantom Wires (A Novel)
Hephaestus
The prairie mother
The lamp in the valley
The house of intrigue
The under groove
Pauline
The hand of peril
Lonely O'Malley
The Man who Couldn't Sleep
The mud lark
The experienc'd huntsman
The wine of life
The woman in the rain, and other poems
The woman in the rain
Epigrams
Supertales of Modern Mystery
Manhandled
The devastator
The cleverest woman in the world
Cristina and I
The ghost plane
Woman in the Rain
The wolf woman
The gun-runner
Intruders in Eden
Star in a mist
Watchers of twilight and other poems
The old woman remembers
Arthur Stringer, son of the North
White hands
City of Peril
Empty hands
The shakow
The wife traders
The woman who couldn't die
The prairie omnibus
Out of Erin (Songs in exile)
The story without a name
Power
In bad with Sinbad
The silver poppy
The diamond thieves
Irish poems
The shadow
Shadowed victory
Marriage by capture
Night hawk
Man lost
The gun runner
New York nocturnes
The loom of destiny
The dark wing
Dark soil
Arthur Stringer, son of the North
Heather of the high hand
A lady quite lost
The king who loved old clothes
New York nocturnes
Denise Mina
Denise Mina (born 1966)

playwright, poet lawyer, criminologist

  • University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde

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