Edgar Allan Poe, Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, Walther Kabel, David Christie Murray, Robert Kraft, Joseph Smith Fletcher, Louis Weinert-Wilton, Paul Rosenhayn, Frank Heller, Émile Gaboriau, Anna Katharine Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Balduin Groller, Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, Hugo Bettauer, Sven Elvestad