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Solution to Quiz on Detective Fiction and Suspense Writers

© Janet Kay Blaylock

Last week you had a quiz to test your knowledge of Early and Late 20th Century Detective Fiction, Suspense, and Thrillers. Your job was to rearrange them under the right topic category: Early 20th Century Detective Fiction, Late 20th Century Detective Fiction, Suspense, and Thrillers. These were the authors

(1) Delano Ames

(2) Mary Higgins Clark

(3) G. K. Chesterton

(4) Sara Paretsky

(5) Arthur Conan Doyle

(6) Nevada Barr

(7) Ngaio Marsh

(8) John Mortimer

(9) Marcia Muller

10) Patricia Cornwell

(11) James Anderson

(12) Raymond Chandler

(13) Catherine Coulter

(14) Edmund Crispin

(15) Josephine Tey

(16) Carol Higgins Clark

(17) Sue Grafton

(18) P.D. James

(19) Carolyn Hart

(20) Dorothy L. Sayers

(21) John Grisham

(22) Tess Gerritsen

(23) Stephen King

(24) Ellery Queen

(25) Gillian Roberts

Here is the solution to last week's quiz - "Quiz on Early and Late 20th Century Detective Fiction and Suspense Writers."

Early 20th Century Detective Fiction Writers

Delano Ames

James Anderson

Edmund Crispin

P. D. James

G. K. Chesterton

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ngaio Marsh

John Mortimer

Dorothy L. Sayers

Josephine Tey

Raymond Chandler (His stories and books are mainly Pulp Fiction)

Ellery Queen

Late 20th Century Detective Fiction Writers

Patricia Cornwell

Sue Grafton

Marcia Muller

Carolyn Hart

Gillian Roberts

Nevada Barr

Sara Paretsky

Carol Higgins Clark

Suspense

Mary Higgins Clark (Known as the Queen of Suspense)

Thrillers

Tess Gerritsen

Stephen King

John Grisham