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| Rank |
Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Edgar Allan Poe |
16,647 |
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| 2 |
Isaac Asimov |
6,713 |
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| 3 |
Kathy Reichs |
2,566 |
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| 4 |
Dennis Lehane |
1,529 |
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| 5 |
Raymond Chandler |
1,418 |
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| 6 |
Michael Connelly |
1,282 |
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| 7 |
Patricia Cornwell |
1,202 |
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| 8 |
James Ellroy |
1,179 |
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| 9 |
Chuck Hogan |
998 |
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| 10 |
Dashiell Hammett |
995 |
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| 11 |
Janet Evanovich |
887 |
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| 12 |
Robert B. Parker |
861 |
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| 13 |
Harlan Coben |
813 |
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| 14 |
Kinky Friedman |
649 |
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| 15 |
Rita Mae Brown |
642 |
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| 16 |
Ellery Queen |
591 |
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| 17 |
Jack Vance |
502 |
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| 18 |
Sue Grafton |
445 |
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| 19 |
James Lee Burke |
424 |
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| 20 |
Lilian Jackson Braun |
417 |
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| 21 |
Margaret Truman |
401 |
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| 22 |
George Pelecanos |
399 |
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| 23 |
Tony Hillerman |
398 |
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| 24 |
Carolyn Keene |
387 |
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| 25 |
Stephen R. Donaldson |
373 |
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| 26 |
Ira Levin |
356 |
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| 27 |
Robert Bloch |
352 |
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| 28 |
Elliott Roosevelt |
332 |
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| 29 |
John D. MacDonald |
330 |
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| 30 |
Ann Turner Cook |
320 |
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| 31 |
Rex Stout |
312 |
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| 32 |
Evan Hunter |
311 |
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| 33 |
Erle Stanley Gardner |
310 |
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| 34 |
Jeffery Deaver |
302 |
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| 35 |
Franklin W. Dixon |
299 |
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| 36 |
Stuart Woods |
299 |
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| 37 |
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun |
293 |
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| 38 |
Jonathan Kellerman |
290 |
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| 39 |
Elizabeth George |
286 |
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| 40 |
Walter Mosley |
284 |
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| 41 |
August Derleth |
281 |
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| 42 |
John Dickson Carr |
265 |
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| 43 |
Robert Crais |
252 |
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| 44 |
Laura Lippman |
252 |
 |
| 45 |
Martin Cruz Smith |
230 |
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| 46 |
Nicholas Meyer |
213 |
 |
| 47 |
Lawrence Block |
210 |
 |
| 48 |
Joe R. Lansdale |
200 |
 |
| 49 |
Leigh Brackett |
195 |
 |
| 50 |
Ross Macdonald |
186 |
 |
| 51 |
Trevanian |
185 |
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| 52 |
Robert Sheckley |
184 |
 |
| 53 |
Barbara Mertz |
177 |
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| 54 |
Cornell Woolrich |
165 |
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| 55 |
Max Allan Collins |
162 |
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| 56 |
S. S. Van Dine |
161 |
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| 57 |
Sara Paretsky |
159 |
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| 58 |
Ayelet Waldman |
158 |
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| 59 |
Keith Ablow |
152 |
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| 60 |
Richard North Patterson |
144 |
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| 61 |
Fredric Brown |
141 |
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| 62 |
Michael Malone |
140 |
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| 63 |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
132 |
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| 64 |
Cyril M. Kornbluth |
130 |
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| 65 |
Laurie R. King |
125 |
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| 66 |
J. A. Jance |
124 |
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| 67 |
Aaron Elkins |
124 |
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| 68 |
Diane Mott Davidson |
120 |
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| 69 |
Anna Katharine Green |
116 |
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| 70 |
Martha Grimes |
114 |
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| 71 |
Charles Willeford |
112 |
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| 72 |
Earl Derr Biggers |
110 |
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| 73 |
Nevada Barr |
110 |
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| 74 |
Jacques Futrelle |
106 |
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| 75 |
Lawrence Sanders |
105 |
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| 76 |
Don Winslow |
103 |
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| 77 |
Yasmine Galenorn |
102 |
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| 78 |
Sheri S. Tepper |
94 |
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| 79 |
Julian Hawthorne |
86 |
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| 80 |
Janwillem van de Wetering |
85 |
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| 81 |
Kay Hooper |
84 |
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| 82 |
Al Sarrantonio |
84 |
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| 83 |
Lisa Scottoline |
81 |
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| 84 |
Jeff Abbott |
80 |
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| 85 |
Donald J. Sobol |
78 |
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| 86 |
Bill Pronzini |
78 |
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| 87 |
Stuart M. Kaminsky |
78 |
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| 88 |
Charles Ardai |
77 |
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| 89 |
Joanne Fluke |
77 |
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| 90 |
Harriet Adams |
74 |
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| 91 |
Allan Folsom |
72 |
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| 92 |
Kate Wilhelm |
71 |
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| 93 |
Ron Goulart |
69 |
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| 94 |
Qiu Xiaolong |
69 |
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| 95 |
Susan Wittig Albert |
67 |
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| 96 |
Avram Davidson |
65 |
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| 97 |
T. Jefferson Parker |
64 |
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| 98 |
Alafair Burke |
64 |
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| 99 |
Simon Hawke |
63 |
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| 100 |
Brian Garfield |
63 |
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| 101 |
Anthony Boucher |
62 |
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| 102 |
Edward D. Hoch |
62 |
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| 103 |
Robert Arthur, Jr. |
61 |
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| 104 |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
60 |
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| 105 |
Gregory Mcdonald |
60 |
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| 106 |
Charlotte Armstrong |
58 |
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| 107 |
P. J. Tracy |
58 |
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| 108 |
J. A. Konrath |
58 |
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| 109 |
P. N. Elrod |
57 |
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| 110 |
John Lutz |
56 |
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| 111 |
Roger L. Simon |
55 |
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| 112 |
John Dunning (writer) |
55 |
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| 113 |
Charles Finch |
54 |
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| 114 |
Joan Lowery Nixon |
52 |
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| 115 |
David Liss |
52 |
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| 116 |
Meg Gardiner |
52 |
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| 117 |
Brett Halliday |
51 |
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| 118 |
Ralph McInerny |
51 |
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| 119 |
Ernest Tidyman |
50 |
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| 120 |
Laura Joh Rowland |
50 |
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| 121 |
William Kent Krueger |
48 |
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| 122 |
Phyllis A. Whitney |
47 |
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| 123 |
Thomas Perry (author) |
47 |
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| 124 |
William Hjortsberg |
47 |
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| 125 |
Kate Collins (author) |
47 |
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| 126 |
Sharyn McCrumb |
46 |
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| 127 |
Robert Ferrigno |
46 |
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| 128 |
Thomas H. Cook |
46 |
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| 129 |
Elizabeth Linington |
45 |
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| 130 |
Joe Gores |
45 |
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| 131 |
Barry B. Longyear |
44 |
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| 132 |
Harry Kemelman |
44 |
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| 133 |
Loren D. Estleman |
44 |
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| 134 |
Hugh Wheeler |
43 |
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| 135 |
Nancy Springer |
43 |
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| 136 |
Henry Slesar |
43 |
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| 137 |
Carleton Carpenter |
42 |
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| 138 |
Mary Jane Clark |
42 |
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| 139 |
William Heffernan |
41 |
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| 140 |
Jeanne C. Stein |
41 |
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| 141 |
Donald Bain (writer) |
40 |
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| 142 |
Edna Buchanan |
40 |
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| 143 |
K. C. Constantine |
38 |
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| 144 |
Michael Collins (author) |
38 |
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| 145 |
Jeff Rovin |
38 |
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| 146 |
Jack Kerley |
38 |
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| 147 |
David Stout |
38 |
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| 148 |
Michael Nava |
37 |
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| 149 |
Don Webb |
37 |
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| 150 |
Ellery Queen (house name) |
37 |
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| 151 |
Marcia Talley |
37 |
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| 152 |
Wilson Tucker |
36 |
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| 153 |
Harry Stephen Keeler |
36 |
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| 154 |
Deborah Crombie |
36 |
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| 155 |
Jeffrey Ford |
35 |
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| 156 |
Lisa Unger |
35 |
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| 157 |
Lisa Lutz |
35 |
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| 158 |
Andrew E. Svenson |
34 |
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| 159 |
Mary Stanton |
34 |
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| 160 |
Elizabeth Gunn |
34 |
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| 161 |
Michele Jaffe |
34 |
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| 162 |
Parnell Hall (writer) |
34 |
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| 163 |
Craig Rice (author) |
33 |
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| 164 |
Kate Ross |
32 |
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| 165 |
Bruce Alexander Cook |
32 |
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| 166 |
John D. Voelker |
31 |
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| 167 |
Mignon G. Eberhart |
31 |
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| 168 |
Anne George (writer) |
30 |
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| 169 |
Craig Johnson (author) |
30 |
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| 170 |
Stephen Graham Jones |
29 |
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| 171 |
Alan Gordon (author) |
29 |
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| 172 |
Eliot Pattison |
29 |
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| 173 |
Sandra Scoppettone |
28 |
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| 174 |
C. W. Grafton |
28 |
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| 175 |
Josh Lanyon |
28 |
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| 176 |
Steve Hamilton (author) |
28 |
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| 177 |
Les Roberts (mystery novel writer) |
27 |
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| 178 |
Jonathan Latimer |
27 |
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| 179 |
Carole Nelson Douglas |
27 |
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| 180 |
Marcia Muller |
27 |
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| 181 |
S. J. Rozan |
27 |
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| 182 |
Morton Freedgood |
27 |
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| 183 |
Carolyn Hart |
27 |
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| 184 |
Richard Lipez |
27 |
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| 185 |
Charlotte MacLeod |
26 |
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| 186 |
Cleo Coyle |
26 |
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| 187 |
Paul Erdman |
25 |
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| 188 |
Barbara Parker (writer) |
25 |
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| 189 |
Jane Langton |
24 |
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| 190 |
Stephen Marlowe |
24 |
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| 191 |
Julie Smith (novelist) |
24 |
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| 192 |
Erika Holzer |
24 |
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| 193 |
David L. Lindsey |
24 |
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| 194 |
Ed Naha |
24 |
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| 195 |
Joseph Hansen (writer) |
23 |
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| 196 |
Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
23 |
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| 197 |
Donna Andrews (author) |
23 |
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| 198 |
Jan Burke |
23 |
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| 199 |
Tom Corcoran (writer) |
23 |
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| 200 |
Nancy Atherton |
23 |
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| 201 |
Clayton Rawson |
22 |
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| 202 |
Frances Crane |
22 |
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| 203 |
Carol Anne O'Marie |
22 |
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| 204 |
Roger Margason |
22 |
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| 205 |
Thomas Piccirilli |
22 |
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| 206 |
Richard Martin Stern |
21 |
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| 207 |
Emma Lathen |
21 |
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| 208 |
Stuart Palmer |
21 |
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| 209 |
Deanna Raybourn |
21 |
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| 210 |
Hayford Peirce |
20 |
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| 211 |
Marshall Jevons |
20 |
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| 212 |
Peter Heck |
20 |
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| 213 |
Keith Robertson |
20 |
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| 214 |
Blaize Clement |
20 |
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| 215 |
Jay Bennett (author) |
20 |
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| 216 |
Boston Teran |
20 |
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| 217 |
Mark Richard Zubro |
19 |
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| 218 |
Sujata Massey |
19 |
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| 219 |
Karen Kijewski |
19 |
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| 220 |
Bernard J. Taylor |
19 |
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| 221 |
John Straley |
19 |
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| 222 |
Robert Goldsborough (author) |
19 |
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| 223 |
Marvin Kaye |
19 |
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| 224 |
Hallie Ephron |
19 |
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| 225 |
Judson Philips |
19 |
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| 226 |
James Doss |
19 |
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| 227 |
Lynda Suzanne Robinson |
18 |
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| 228 |
Arthur B. Reeve |
17 |
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| 229 |
Dorothy Salisbury Davis |
17 |
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| 230 |
William P. McGivern |
17 |
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| 231 |
Sheila Connolly |
17 |
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| 232 |
Jerrilyn Farmer |
17 |
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| 233 |
Nell Martin |
17 |
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| 234 |
Cara Black (author) |
17 |
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| 235 |
Deborah Grabien |
17 |
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| 236 |
Laura Frankos |
16 |
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| 237 |
Jane Louise Curry |
16 |
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| 238 |
Paul Kemprecos |
16 |
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| 239 |
Patrick Quentin |
16 |
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| 240 |
W. C. Morrow |
16 |
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| 241 |
Lillian Stewart Carl |
16 |
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| 242 |
John Shannon (novelist) |
16 |
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| 243 |
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford |
15 |
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| 244 |
Ed Lacy |
15 |
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| 245 |
Vincent Starrett |
15 |
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| 246 |
W. D. Gagliani |
15 |
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| 247 |
Michael Kurland |
14 |
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| 248 |
Kathryn Casey |
14 |
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| 249 |
Alfred Harbage |
14 |
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| 250 |
Helen McCloy |
14 |
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| 251 |
Michael Mallory |
14 |
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| 252 |
Elaine Viets |
14 |
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| 253 |
Milton K. Ozaki |
14 |
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| 254 |
David Debin |
14 |
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| 255 |
I. J. Parker |
14 |
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| 256 |
Howard Wandrei |
14 |
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| 257 |
Jeremy Lane |
14 |
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| 258 |
Andy Adams (pseudonym) |
14 |
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| 259 |
Michael Z. Lewin |
14 |
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| 260 |
Miriam Allen deFord |
13 |
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| 261 |
Edwin Balmer |
13 |
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| 262 |
Dale Furutani |
13 |
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| 263 |
Celestine Sibley |
13 |
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| 264 |
Collin Wilcox (writer) |
13 |
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| 265 |
Harold Q. Masur |
13 |
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| 266 |
Mary Rosenblum |
13 |
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| 267 |
Richard Lockridge |
13 |
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| 268 |
Suzanne Frank |
13 |
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| 269 |
Robert Morris (author) |
13 |
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| 270 |
Phyllis Ann Karr |
13 |
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| 271 |
Brian Freeman (psychological suspense author) |
13 |
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| 272 |
Howard Browne |
12 |
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| 273 |
Reggie Nadelson |
12 |
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| 274 |
Sarah Andrews (author) |
12 |
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| 275 |
George C. Chesbro |
12 |
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| 276 |
Susan Rogers Cooper |
12 |
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| 277 |
Patricia Ryan (author) |
12 |
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| 278 |
Hank Phillippi Ryan |
12 |
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| 279 |
Jim Michael Hansen |
12 |
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| 280 |
Casey, Crime Photographer |
12 |
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| 281 |
Herbert Lieberman |
12 |
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| 282 |
John E. Stith |
11 |
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| 283 |
Chester K. Steele |
11 |
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| 284 |
Barbara Brooks Wallace |
11 |
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| 285 |
Patricia McGerr |
11 |
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| 286 |
Lawrence Blochman |
11 |
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| 287 |
Mikel Dunham |
11 |
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| 288 |
Loren Singer |
11 |
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| 289 |
George Bagby (author) |
11 |
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| 290 |
Will Oursler |
11 |
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| 291 |
Robert Ward (novelist & screenwriter) |
11 |
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| 292 |
John Ramsey Miller |
11 |
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| 293 |
Eleanor Taylor Bland |
10 |
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| 294 |
Ellen Hart |
10 |
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| 295 |
Peter Blauner |
10 |
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| 296 |
Isaac Adamson |
10 |
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| 297 |
Brendan DuBois |
10 |
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| 298 |
Bruce Elliott |
10 |
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| 299 |
J. M. Hayes |
10 |
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| 300 |
Anna Maynard Barbour |
10 |
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| 301 |
Betsy Haynes |
10 |
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| 302 |
Robert D. Zimmerman |
10 |
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| 303 |
Russell H. Greenan |
10 |
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| 304 |
Irene Marcuse |
10 |
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| 305 |
John Alfred "Jack" Webb |
9 |
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| 306 |
William L. DeAndrea |
9 |
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| 307 |
Linda O. Johnston |
9 |
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| 308 |
Anne Wingate |
9 |
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| 309 |
Lawrence Treat |
9 |
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| 310 |
Andrew Coburn (author) |
9 |
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| 311 |
Baynard Kendrick |
9 |
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| 312 |
Marie Rodell |
9 |
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| 313 |
Barbara Colley |
9 |
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| 314 |
Robert Reuland |
9 |
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| 315 |
William Gray Beyer |
9 |
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| 316 |
Robert Fate |
9 |
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| 317 |
Maura Sheridan |
9 |
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| 318 |
Julie Hyzy |
9 |
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| 319 |
Deb Baker |
8 |
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| 320 |
Joel Townsley Rogers |
8 |
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| 321 |
Robert Leslie Bellem |
8 |
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| 322 |
Charles Mathes |
8 |
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| 323 |
Charlotte Elkins |
8 |
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| 324 |
Terence Faherty |
8 |
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| 325 |
J.F. Englert |
8 |
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| 326 |
Shannon Gilligan |
7 |
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| 327 |
William Campbell Gault |
7 |
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| 328 |
Betty Webb |
7 |
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| 329 |
Mildred B. Davis |
7 |
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| 330 |
Michael Kilian |
7 |
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| 331 |
Christopher Lane |
7 |
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| 332 |
Rebecca Pawel |
7 |
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| 333 |
Philip R. Craig |
7 |
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| 334 |
Dolores Hitchens |
7 |
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| 335 |
Edward Longstreet Bodin |
7 |
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| 336 |
Ronald Tierney |
7 |
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| 337 |
Heather Terrell |
7 |
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| 338 |
S.D. Tooley |
7 |
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| 339 |
Mark Coggins |
7 |
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| 340 |
M. K. Wren |
6 |
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| 341 |
Mark W. Tiedemann |
6 |
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| 342 |
Karen Lee Killough |
6 |
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| 343 |
William Robert Cox |
6 |
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| 344 |
Nancy Fairbanks |
6 |
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| 345 |
L. C. Hayden |
6 |
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| 346 |
Sam Merwin, Jr. |
6 |
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| 347 |
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
6 |
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| 348 |
Rita Lakin |
6 |
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| 349 |
Philip Lawson (author) |
6 |
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| 350 |
Herbert Brean |
6 |
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| 351 |
Linda L. Richards |
6 |
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| 352 |
Milton Scott Michel |
6 |
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| 353 |
Beth Groundwater |
6 |
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| 354 |
Jerry Labriola |
6 |
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| 355 |
Donna Levin |
6 |
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| 356 |
Virginia Rich |
6 |
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| 357 |
Paul Cain (author) |
6 |
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| 358 |
Gaylord Larsen |
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| 359 |
Barbara Owens |
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| 360 |
Penny Warner |
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| 361 |
Genevieve Pou |
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| 362 |
Mabel Seeley |
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Albert Leffingwell (novelist) |
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| 364 |
Sarah Smith (writer) |
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| 365 |
Cecil Dawkins |
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| 366 |
Douglas Anne Munson |
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Morwyn |
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Kathleen George |
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| 369 |
John Franklin Carter |
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| 370 |
Greg Lilly |
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Libby Fischer Hellmann |
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Anne Laughlin |
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Theodore Tinsley |
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J. H. Wallis |
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Zelda Popkin |
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Jerry D. Thomas |
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Lea Wait |
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| 378 |
Carole Berry |
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| 379 |
Roman McDougald |
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| 380 |
F. L. Wallace |
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| 381 |
Suzanne Chazin |
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Rick Shefchik |
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| 383 |
Ronald Clair Roat |
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| 384 |
D. A. McGuire |
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| 385 |
Joseph Commings |
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| 386 |
Joseph Shallit |
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| 387 |
Naomi Gurian |
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| 388 |
Margot Arnold |
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| 389 |
Mark Bourne |
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| 390 |
Barbara Ninde Byfield |
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| 391 |
Neil S. Plakcy |
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