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 | | , and Elmore Leonard and, adding lurid sex and brutality, James Hadley Chase and Mickey Spillane. |
 | | For example, Agatha Christie is noted for her clever plots, John Dickson Carr for his ingenious “locked room” mysteries, Dick Francis for his depiction of the horse-racing world, and Ruth Rendell for her novels combining character and atmosphere with absorbing police procedure, perceptive sociological and psychological analysis, and a sense of life's tragedy. |
 | | Other popular detective novelists include Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Amanda Cross (all of whom feature heroines), the humorous Elmore Leonard, Lawrence Block, Walter Mosley, and Tony Hillerman. |
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