Arthur Conan Doyle

Charles Dickens

E. F. Benson

Edgar Wallace

J. M. Barrie

Robert Louis Stevenson

Thomas Hardy

Louisa M. Alcott

George MacDonald

Emmuska Orczy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jerome K. Jerome

Wilkie Collins

M.R. James

G. K. Chesterton

Saki

John Kendrick Bangs

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Fergus Hume

Grant Allen

Sabine Baring-Gould

Frank R. Stockton

R. Austin Freeman

Fred M. White

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Arthur Cheney Train

Leonard Kip

Catherine Crowe

Lucie E. Jackson

William Douglas O'Connor

James Bowker

Florence Marryat

Katherine Rickford

Bithia Mary Croker

Catherine L. Pirkis

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