This list is by literary author for books in which: the author is a character, their written works are a plot device, or the book contains significant references to the author or his/her works.

Jane Austen

Barron, Stephanie. Jane in the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor.
Barron, Stephanie. Jane and the Man of the Cloth.
Barron, Stephanie. Jane and the Wandering Eye.
Barron, Stephanie. Jane and the Genius of the Place.
Barron, Stephanie. Jane and the Stillroom Maid.

Robert Benchly

Anonymous. (Philip Wylie & Bernard A. Bergman). The Smiling Corpse.

Charlotte Bronte

Tully, James. The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte.

Emily Bronte

Lee, Austin. Miss Hogg and the Bronte Murders

Raymond Chandler

Block, Lawrence. The Burglar in the Library
Nolan, William F. The Black Mask Murders.
Nolan, William F. The Marble Orchard.

G.K Chesterton

Anonymous. (Philip Wylie & Bernard A. Bergman). The Smiling Corpse.

Agatha Christie

Larsen, Gaylord. Dorothy and Agatha.

Wilkie Collins

Palmer, William J. The Detective and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Dons and Mr Dickens.

Charles Dickens

Derleth, August. The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians.
Fruttero, Carlo & F. Lucentini. The D. Case or The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Graeme, Bruce. Epilogue.
Palmer, William J. The Detective and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens
Palmer, William J. The Dons and Mr Dickens.
Rosenbaum, Ron. Murder at Elaine's
Rowland, Peter. The Disappearance of Edwin Drood.
Skom, Edith. The Charles Dickens Murders.

Emily Dickinson

Dobson, Joanne. Quieter than Sleep.
Langton, Jane. Emily Dickinson is dead.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hjortsberg, William. Nevermore.
Lovell, Marc. The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus.
Richardson, Robert. The Book of the Dead.
Symons, Julian. Kentish Manor Murders.

Alexandre Dumas

Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Dumas Club.

T.S. Eliot

Sawyer, Corinne Holt. The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders.

George Elliot

Skom, Edith. The George Elliot Murders.

William Faulkner

Kaminsky, Stuart M. Never Cross a Vampire.

Henry Fielding

Alexander, Bruce (Cook). Blind Justice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Handler, David. The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Nolan, William F. The Black Mask Murders
Nolan, William F. The Marble Orchard.

Dashiell Hammett

Anonymous. (Philip Wylie & Bernard A. Bergman). The Smiling Corpse.
Nolan, William F. The Black Mask Murders
Nolan, William F. The Marble Orchard.

Ernest Hemingway

Baker, Carlos. The Gay Head Conspiracy.
Haldeman, Joe. The Hemingway Hoax.
Harris, MacDonald. Hemingway's suitcase.
Satterthwait, Walter. Masquerade.

James Joyce

Cross, Amanda. The James Joyce Murder.
Gill, Bartholomew. Death of a Joyce scholar.

John Keats

Faherty, Terence. The Lost Keats.

Rudyard Kipling

Block, Lawrence. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Paige, Robin. Death At Rottingdean

Jack London

Banbury, Jen. Like a Hole in the Head.

Herman Melville

Ballinger, John. The Williamsburg Forgeries.

Dorothy Parker

Anonymous. (Philip Wylie & Bernard A. Bergman). The Smiling Corpse.
Baxt, George. The Dorothy Parker Murder.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dobson, Joanne. The Raven and the Nightingale : A Modern Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dunning, John.The Bookman's Wake.
Sanders, Lawrence. McNally's Caper.
Schechter, Harold. Nevermore.
Steward, Barbara & Dwight. Evermore.
Steward, Barbara & Dwight The Lincoln Diddle.
Zaroulis, N. L. The Poe papers.

Sax Rohmer

Anonymous. (Philip Wylie & Bernard A. Bergman). The Smiling Corpse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Larsen, Gaylord. Dorothy and Agatha.

William Shakespeare

Friedlander, Mark P. & Robert W. Kennny. The Shakespeare Transcripts.
Gordon, Neil. The Shakespeare murders.
Hawkes, Simon. A Mystery of Errors.
Hoyt, Richard. The Siskiyou two-step.
James, Susan. Foul Deeds.
Jones, Howard. Beware the Hunter!
McGinley, Patrick. Bogmail - A Novel.
Williams, David. Unholy writ.

Gertrude Stein

Satterthwait, Walter. Masquerade.

Rex Stout

Jeffers, H. Paul. Corpus Corpus.

Jonathan Swift

Gill, Bartholomew. The death of an ardent bibliophile.

Henry David Thoreau

Courtier, S.H. Ligny's Lake.

Mark Twain

Guntrum, Robert R. The Great Twain Robbery.
Heck, Peter J. Death on the Mississippi.
Heck, Peter J. A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court .
Heck, Peter J. The Prince and the Prosecutor.
Skom, Edith. The Mark Twain Murders.
Smith, Julie. Huckleberry Fiend

Walt Whitman

Steward, Barbara & Dwight. The Lincoln Diddle.

Oscar Wilde

Satterthwait, Walter. Wilde West.

 

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