Anderson, Frederick Irving, (1877-1947)
--Blind Man's Buff, 1914. (The Adventures of the Infallible Godahl, 1914.)
Block, Lawrence, (1938- )
--By the Dawn's Early Light, 1984. (The Eyes Have It, 1984.)
Buck, Pearl S., (1892-1973)
--Ransom, 1938. (Cosmopolitan, October, 1938.)
Cain, James M., (1892-1977)
--The Baby in the Icebox, 1933. (American Mercury, January, 1933.)
Cather, Willa, (1876-1947)
--Paul's Case, 1905. (McClure's Magazine, May, 1905.)
Chandler, Raymond, (1888-1959)
--Red Wind, 1938. (Dime Detective, January, 1938.)
Crumley, James, (1939- )
--Hot Springs, 1996. (Murder for Love, 1996.)
DuBois, Brendan, (1959- )
--The Dark Snow, 1996. (Playboy, November, 1996.)
Ellin, Stanley, (1916-1986)
--The Moment of Decision, 1955. (Ellery Queen, March, 1955.)
Ellison, Harlan, (1934- )
--The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, 1973. (Bad Moon Rising, 1973.)
Faulkner, William, (1897-1962)
--An Error in Chemistry, 1946. (Ellery Queen, June, 1946; Knight's Gambit, 1946.)
Fish, Robert L., (1912-1981)
--The Wager, 1973. (Playboy, July, 1973.)
Franklin, Tom, (1963- )
--Poachers, 1998. (Texas Review, Spring, 1998.)
Futrelle, Jacques, (1875-1912)
--The Problem of Cell 13, 1905. (Boston American, october 30, 1905.)
Glaspell, Susan, (1882-1948)
--A Jury of Her Peers, 1917. (Every Week, March 5, 1917; A Jury of Her Peers, 1927.)
Gores, Joe, (1931- )
--Goodbye, Pops, 1969. (Ellery Queen, December, 1969.)
Grafton, Sue, (1940- )
--The Parker Shotgun, 1986. (Mean Streets, 1986.)
Greenleaf, Stephen, (1942- )
--Iris, 1984. (The Eyes Have It, 1984.)
Hammett, Dashiell, (1894-1961)
--The Gutting of Couffignal, 1925. (Black Mask, December, 1925; The Big Knockover, 1925.)
Henry, O., (Willian Sydney Porter, 1862-1910)
--A Retrieved Reformation, 1903. (Cosmopolitan, April, 1903.)
Highsmith, Patricia, (1921-1995)
--The Terrapin, 1962. (Ellery Queen, October, 1962.)
Hunter, Evan, (1926- )
--First Offense, 1955. (Manhunt, December, 1955.)
Jackson, Shirley, (1920-1965)
--The Possibility of Evil, 1965. (The Saturday Evening Post, December 18, 1965.)
Kemelman, Harry, (1908-1996)
--The Nine Mile Walk, 1947. (Ellery Queen, April, 1947.)
King, Stephen, (1947- )
--Quitters, Inc., 1978. (Night Shift, 1978.)
Lardner, Ring, (1885-1933)
--Haircut, 1925. (Liberty Magazine, March 28, 1925.)
Lehane, Dennis, (1965- )
--Running Out of Dog, 1999. (Murder and Obsession, 1999.)
MacDonald, John D., (1916-1986)
--The Homesick Buick, 1950. (Ellery Queen, September, 1950.)
Macdonald, Ross, (Kenneth Millar, 1915-1983)
--Gone Girl, 1953. (Manhunt, February, 1953.)
Malone, Michael, (1942- )
--Red Clay, 1996. (Murder for Love, 1996.)
Millar, Margaret, (1915-1994)
--The Couple Next Door, 1957. (Ellery Queen, #128, July, 1957.)
Oates, Joyce Carol, (1938- )
--Do with Me What You Will, 1973. (Playboy, June, 1973.)
O'Connor, Flannery, (1925-1964)
--The Comforts of Home, 1965. (Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965.)
Paretsky, Sara, (1947- )
--Three-Dot Po, 1984. (The Eyes Have It, 1984.)
Post, Melville Davisson, (1869-1930)
--Naboth's Vineyard, 1916. (Illustrated Sunday Magazine, June 4, 1916.)
Queen, Ellery, (Frederic Dannay, 1915-1982; Manfred B. Lee, 1905-1971)
--The Adventure of the President's Half Disme, 1947. (Ellery Queen, February, 1947.)
Redman, Ben Ray, (1896-1961)
--The Perfect Crime, 1928. (Harper's, August, 1928.)
Ritchie, Jack, (1922-1983)
--The Absence of Emily, 1981. (Ellery Queen, January 28, 1981.)
Runyan, Damon, (1880-1946)
--Sense of Humor, 1934. (Cosmopolitan, September, 1934; Money from Home, 1935.)
Slesar, Henry, (1927- )
--The Day of the Execution, 1957. (Alfred Hitchcock, June, 1957; Clean Crimes and Neat Murders, 1960.)
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, (1886-1970)
--Blue Murder, 1925. (Harpers, October, 1925; The Man Who Saw Through Heaven, 1927.)
Steinbeck, John, (1902-1968)
--The Murder, 1933. (North American Review, December, 1933; The Long Valley, 1938.)
Thurber, James, (1894-1961)
--The Catbird Seat, 1942. (The New Yorker, November 14, 1942.)
Weidman, Jerome, (1913-1998)
--Good Man, Bad Man, 1967. (The Saturday Evening Post, July 1, 1967.)
Westlake, Donald E., (1933- )
--Too Many Crooks, 1989. (Playboy, August, 1989.)
Woolrich, Cornell, (1903-1968)
--Rear Window, 1942. (as It Had to Be Murder, in Dime Detective, February, 1942.)