Across
- 1. Mystery author who wrote The Big Sleep
- 5. The author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
- 11. Author of the Philip Marlowe detective series
- 13. Creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
- 14. Creator of the Inspector Rebus detective series
- 15. Author of the Sherlock Holmes series
Down
- 2. Author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man"
- 3. Author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone
- 4. Author who wrote The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
- 6. Author of The Silent Patient
- 7. Author of The Woman in the Window
- 8. Creator of the V.I. Warshawski detective novels
- 9. Creator of Fletch, the investigative journalist
- 10. American author of The Cuckoo's Calling
- 12. Author of the Harry Bosch series
