Authors A-B * Authors C-D * Authors E-H * Authors I-L * Authors M-P * Authors Q-T * Authors U-Z * One-offs A-L * One-offs M-Z

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 Authors known or believed to have written only one work of detective fiction: A-L

 

Alfon, HT - Fourth Rule for Murderers (1948)

Allen, H Warner - Mr Clerihew, Wine Merchant (1933)

Allison, Hughes - Corollary (1948)

Andrews, Horace J -- The Indian Idol Mystery (1942?)

Adams, Elihu - Operation Homicide (1947)

Adams, Eustace L - Death Charter (1943)

Allen, Francis - First Come, First Kill (1945)

Allen, Leslie - Murder in the Rough (1946)
Atwater, Mary Meigs - Crime in Corn Weather (1935) 

Audebrand, Philibert - Les Trois Nuits de Sir Richard Cockerell (1844)

Baker, Hugh -- Cartwright is Dead, Sir! (1934)

Baker, North and Bolton, William - Dead to the World

Bangs, John Kendrick - R Holmes and Co (1906)

Bennett, Dorothy - How Strange a Thing (1935)

Benson, EF - The Blotting Book (1908)

Bishop, Morris - see Johnson, W Bolingbroke

Blake, Eleanor -- Death Down East (1942) 

Bloch, Blanche (1890-1980) - The Bach Festival Murders

Bolton, William and Baker, North - Dead to the World (1944)

Borges, Jorge Luis with Adolfo Bioy-Casares - Six Problems for Don Isidoro Parodi (1942)

Bowen, Joseph -- The Man Without a Head (1933)

Brandon, Michael - Nonce (1944)

Brown, Dorothy Foster - Grimm Death (1946)

Burleigh, Hilary - Murder at Maison Manche (1948)

Burks, Allison - Tight Rope (1945)

Burnham, David - Last Act in Bermuda (1940)

Burns, Mary Loveland - Murder at Crawford Notch (1944)

Burton, William E - The Secret Cell (1837)

Cairns, Cicely - Murder Goes to Press (1950)

Calhoun, Charles W - Until Proven Guilty (1917)

Campbell, Ronald -- Marked For Murder (1958)

Capek, Karel -- Tales from Two Pockets (1962)

Casson, Stanley - Murder by Burial (1925)

Childers, Erskine - The Riddle of the Sands (1903)

Christians, Kit - Death and Bitters (1943)

Clark, Dorothy Park - Roll, Jordan, Roll (1947)

Cleaton, Irene - The Outsider (1944)

Clugston, Kate - Murderer in the House (1947)

Coffin, Carlyn - Dogwatch (1944)

Coulter, HG - Death Comes to Casanova (1945)

Coverack, Gilbert - ATS Mystery (1944)

Cowan, Sada - Bitter Justice (1942)

Coxe, Kathleen Buddington see Long, Amelia Reynolds

Crowell, Will - Murder in Mocking Valley (1944)

Csida, Joe - Crime is of the Essence (1946)

Damer, Anne and Scott, Jack Denton - Too Lively to Live (1945)

Davidson, TL - The Murder in the Laboratory (1929)

Dean, RG - The Sutton Place Murders (1936)

Dell, Amen - Johnny on the Spot (1943)

di Benedetto, Lelia and Harris, Jules E - Murder Shrieks Out (1945)

Diamond, Frank - Murder Rides a Rocket (1946)

Doherty, Ed - The Corpse Who Wouldn't Die (1945)

Dougall, Bernard - The Singing Corpse (1943)

Dow, John - The Little Boy Laughed (1945)

Dudley, Dorothy and Sheridan, Juanita - What Dark Secret (1943)

Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca (1938)

Duncan, David - The Shade of Time (1946)

Edelstein, Mortimer S and Sanders, Marion K - The Bride Laughed Once

Eisinger, Jo - The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1943)

Ericson, Sibyl - The Curate's Crime (1946)

Ericson, Walter (1914-2003) -- Fallen Angel (1952) aka The Darkness Within

Farrar, Helen - Murder Goes to School (1948)

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) -- Knight's Gambit (1949)

Fitzsimmons, Cortland - Tied for Murder (1943)

Franklin, Miles - Bring the Monkey (1933)

Freeman-Hilton, Thomas - The Sayle Case (1946)

French, Alice see Thanet, Octave

Fuller, Lester and Rolfe, Edwin - The Glass Room (1946)

Fuller, Samuel Michael - The Dark Page (1944) apa Murder Makes a Deadline

Gaines, Audrey - Omit Flowers, Please (1946)

Gardiner, Dorothy - Beer for Psyche (1946)

Gardner, Curtiss T - Bones Don't Lie (1946)

Gay, Myra - Little Jade Lady (1948)

Gerould, Gordon Hall - A Midsummer Mystery (1925)

Gibbons, Francis Cromwell - Murder in Hollywood (1936)

Goode, Bill - The Senator's Nude (1947)

Gordon, Mildred - The Little Man Who Wasn't There (1946)

Gray, Jonathan - Untimely Slain (1947)

Guinness, KD - Fisherman's End (1958)

Hagen, Miriam-Ann - Plant Me Now (1947)

Hall, Cyril - Leave to Presume Death (1947)

Halleran, EE - Thirteen Toy Pistols (1945)

Hastings, DG - Death at the Depot (1944)

Hays, Sue Brown - Go Down Death (1946)

Harris, Jules E and di Benedetto, Lelia - Murder Shrieks Out (1945)

Hilliard, AR - Outlaw Island (1942)

Hilton, James - Murder at School (1931) aka Was It Murder?

Hirsch, Lee - Murder Steals the Show (1946)

Holley, Helen - Blood on the Beach (1946)

Holmes, Paul A - Murder Buttoned Up (1948)

Holt, Allison - Bier for a Hussy (1943)

Hunt, Peter - Murders at Scandal House (1933)

Hutton, J F - Too Good to Be True (1948) aka Dead Man Friday; The Dolphin Mystery

Hull, Eric Traviss - Murder Lays a Golden Egg (1944)

Hurley, Gene - Have You Seen This Man? (1944)

Irving, Alexander - Bitter Ending (1946)

Irwin, Inez Haynes - The Women Swore Revenge (1946)

James, Franklin - Killer in the Kitchen (1947)

John, Romilly and Katherine - Death by Request (1933)

Johnson, Pamela Hansford see Lombard, Nap

Johnson, W Bolingbroke - The Widening Stain (1942)

Jordan, Elizabeth - Herself (1943)

Kaufman, Wolfe - I Hate Blondes! (1946)

Kendall, Carol - The Black Seven (1956)

Kent, David - A Knife is Silent (1947)

Kindon, Thomas - Murder in the Moor (1929)

Kyle, Elizabeth - Mally Lee (1947)

La Roche, K Alison - Dear Dead Professor (1944)

Lakin, Richard - The Body Fell on Berlin (1943)

Land, Harry - The Corpse on the Hearth (1946)

Lauferty, Lilian - The Hungry House (1943)

Layhew, Jane - RX for Murder (1946)

Ledig, Alma K and Malan, Ernestine - Cobwebs and Clues (1944)

Lee, Leonard - The Twisted Mirror (1947)

Lemmon, Laura Elizabeth see Wilson, Lee

Lewis, HH -- Pearls and Perjury (1950)

Liebeler, Jane Mayer - You, the Jury (1944)

Linklater, J Lane - Shadow For a Lady (1947)

Logan, Carolynne and Malcolm - One of These Seven (1946)

Lombard, Nap - The Grinning Pig (1943)

Long, Julius - Keep the Coffins Coming (1947)

Low, Ivy (Litvinov) - His Master's Voice (1930) aka Moscow Mystery

Lynde, Francis - Scientific Sprague (1912)

Lyon, Dana - It's My Own Funeral (1944)