Lawrence Block
Earl Emerson --PI Thomas Black and MacFontana series
Parnell Hall --PI Stanley Hastings, Cora Hastings and Steve Winslow series
Gar Anthony Haywood -- Aaron Gunner,
Loudermilk ,Jeremiah Healy,
Mairead O'Clare series
Ross Macdonald--Lew Archer series
Robert B. Parker--Spenser PI series
Bill Pronzini -- Nameless Detective series
Ellery Queen
Rick Riordan--Tres Navarre
S.j. Rozan --Lydia Chin and Bill Smith series
Lawrence Sanders --Archie McNally series
Dorothy Sayers--Lord Peter Wimsey series
Mickey Spillane --Mike Hammer series
Rex Stout --Nero Wolfe series