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collaborated with John Harvey on a suspense novel Endgame (1981) as by "James Mann." He is said to have published 160 novels under twenty-one different pseudonyms, including crime, historical, romance, western, horror, and science fiction.
     
     
ADRIENNE JONES (1915–2000). Coauthor with Doris Meek of two mysteries, 1953–56, one each as by "Mason Gregory" and "Gregory Mason."
     
     
TERENCE JOURNET (19??–2000). New Zealand author of four suspense novels, 1967–74, unpublished in America.
     
     
NORMAN KARK (1898–2000). Editor and publisher of The London Mystery Magazine (later London Mystery Selection) from 1951 to 1982.
     
     
JOHN KOBLER (1910–2000). Journalist and true crime writer, best known for Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone (1971).
     
     
DUNCAN KYLE (1930–2000). Best-known pseudonym of John Franklin Broxholme, British author of thirteen thrillers beginning with A Cage of Ice (1970), one of them under a second pseudonym of "James Meldrum."
     
     
ELIZABETH LEMARCHAND (1906–2000). British author of seventeen detective novels about Detective Superintendent Tom Pollard, notably Death of an Old Girl (1967), The Affacombe Affair (1968) and Cyanide with Compliments (1972).
     
     
PETER LEVI (1931–2000). British author of three mystery novels beginning with The Head in the Soup (1979).
     
     
JOHN V. LINDSAY (1921–2000). Former mayor of New York City who published a novel of intrigue, The Edge (1976).
     
     
EDWARD (ED) LINN (1922–2000). Baseball writer who collaborated with bank robber Willie Sutton on Where the Money Was (1976) and also wrote a single suspense novel, The Adversaries (1973).
     
     
ROGER LONGRIGG (1929–2000). British author who published one crime novel under his own name but was better known in the field for his nine thrillers as "Ivor Drummond" and others under the pseudonyms of "Laura Black," "Frank Parrish," and "Domini Taylor." Perhaps his best-known novel was the noncriminous schoolgirl farce The Passion Flower Hotel (1962), written as "Rosalind Erskine."
     
     
J. J. MALONEY (1940–1999). Author of two suspense novels starting with I Speak for the Dead (1982).
     
     
ATANAS PETROV MANDADJIEV (19??–2000). Mainstream Bulgarian author, at least ten of whose novels and stories are in the mystery genre. Cofounder of the International Association of Crime Writers and head of its Bulgarian branch.
     
     
WILLIAM MAXWELL (1908–2000). Longtime New Yorker writer and editor, whose books include a single murder novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980).
     
     
WILLIAM MCCLEERY (1911–2000). Author of a single play about Perry Mason, A Case for Mason (1967).
     
     
VINCENT MCCONNOR (1907–1999). Author of eight novels, 1965–89, and numerous short stories in EQMM, AHMM and elsewhere.
     
     
MICHAEL MCDOWELL (1950–1999). Author of eight mysteries under his own name, but better known for a series of four gay mysteries under the pseudonym "Nathan Aldyne," cowritten with the late Dennis Schuetz, notably Vermilion (1980). The team also published two mysteries as by "Axel Young."
     
     
NEIL MCGAUGHEY (1951–1999). Author of at least two detective novels beginning with Otherwise Known as Murder (1994).
     
     
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW (1915–2000). Author of mystery, fantasy, and historical fiction for children, winner of the Edgar Award for best juvenile mystery, A Really Weird Summer (1978).
     
     
FRED MCMORROW (1925–2000). Author and editor who published at least one story in the British edition of Suspense (6/59).
     
     
CHARLES MEYER (1947–2000). Author of the Reverend Lucas Holt mysteries, beginning with The Saints of God Murders (1995).
     
     
PATRICIA MOYES (1923–2000). Well-known British author of nineteen novels about sleuths Henry and Emmy Tibbett, notably Dead Men Don't Ski (1959), Down Among the Dead Men (1961), Johnny Under Ground (1965), Murder Fantastical (1967), and Many Deadly Returns (1970). A novella and twenty short stories were