SYKM


1930s
Harold Adams
  • Carl Wilcox: ex-convict and Depression-era sign-painter in South Dakota

James Anderson
  • Inspector Wilkin: in 1930s England

George Baxt
  • The Celebrity Murder series: featuring celebrity detectives from the 1920s through 1950s

Rhys Bowen
  • Lady Georgiana: minor royalty in 1930s England

Max Allan Collins
  • Nate Heller: 1930s ex-cop turned private eye, in Chicago, Illinois
  • Eliot Ness: 1930s public safety officer in Cleveland, Ohio
August Derleth
  • Solar Pons: acknowledged imitation of Sherlock Holmes

P.N. Elrod
  • Jack Fleming: 1930s reporter turned vampire in Chicago, Illinois, in the Vampire Files

Alan Furst
  • Non-series spy books about 1930s Europe and World War II

Friedrich Glauser
  • Jakob Studer: police sergeant (Wachtmeister) in 1930s Bern, Switzerland

Robert Goldsborough
  • Steve “Snap” Malek: police reporter for the Tribune, in 1930s–1940s Chicago, Illinois

Fred Harris
  • Okie Dunn: sheriff in 1930s Vernon, Oklahoma
Philip Kerr
  • Bernie Gunther: German private eye who hates the Nazis, in Berlin, Germany, 1936-47

Elmore Leonard
  • Carl Webster: US Marshall in the 1930s and 1940s

William F. Nolan
  • The Black Mask Boys: 1930s detective heroes in California
Rebecca Pawel
  • Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon: sergeant in Guardia Civil in 1930s and 1940s Madrid, Spain

Linda L. Richards
  • Kitty Pangborn: secretary to private eye Dexter J. Theroux, in 1930s Los Angeles, California

David Roberts
  • Lord Edward Corinth: jaded English aristocrat, and Verity Browne, a leftist journalist, between the wars in 1930s London, England

Dorothy & Sidney Rosen
  • Belle Appleman: Jewish immigrant and garment worker during the Great Depression, in Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Skinner
  • Wesley Farrell: Creole nightclub owner passing for white, in 1930s New Orleans, Louisiana

Neville Steed
  • Johnny Black: private detective in 1930s England

Jacqueline Winspear
  • Maisie Dobbs: psychologist and investigator based in 1920s and 1930s London, England

James Garcia Woods
  • Inspector Paco Ruiz: at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in Madrid, Spain

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