SYKM


New York Mysteries
Anthony Abbot
  • Thatcher Colt: police commissioner in New York City

Lydia Adamson
  • Alice Nestleton: actress and cat-sitter in New York City
  • Deirdre Quinn Nightingale: veterinarian in New York City
  • Lucy Wayles: librarian in New York City

Thomas Adcock
  • Neil Hockaday: police detective in New York City

David Alexander
  • Bart Harden: a tough Broadway editor in New York City

Lawrence Alexander
  • Theodore Roosevelt: Police Commissioner in 1890s New York City

Angela Amato & Joe Sharkey
  • Gerry Conte: undercover cop turned defense attorney in New York City

Sheryl J. Anderson
  • Molly Forrester: advice columnist in New York City

Russell Andrews (David Handler and Peter Gethers)
  • Justin Westwood: former Providence, RI, cop, retreating to the local police department in East End Harbor, Long Island, New York

William Ard
  • Timothy Dane: private investigator in New York City
  • Lou Largo: private investigator in New York City

Charlotte Armstrong
  • MacDougal Duff: retired history professor in New York City

Paul Auster
  • The New York Trilogy

Michael Avallone
  • Ed Noon: private investigator in New York City, later on special assignment to the President of the United States

Jacqueline Babbin
  • Clovis Kelly: ex-NYPD homicide detective and TV crime consultant in New York City

George Bagby (Aaron Mark Stein)
  • Inspector Schmidt: colorless cop with a brilliant mind in New York City

Maggie Barbieri
  • Alison Bergeron: newly divorced English professor at St. Thomas, a small Catholic college in the Bronx, New York City

Margaret Barrett
  • Susan Given: an asset forfeiture prosecutor in New York City

Richard Barth
  • Margaret Binton: 70-something little old lady in New York City

L.L. Bartlett
  • Jeff Resnick: former insurance Investigator in Buffalo, New York

George Baxt
  • Pharoah Love: a gay, black NYPD detective in New York City
  • Sylvia Plotkin, an author and teacher, and Max Van Larsen, a police detective, in New York City

Cynthia Baxter
  • Jessica Popper: veterinarian in Long Island, New York, in the Reigning Cats & Dogs

William Bayer
  • Frank Janek: NYPD homicide detective in New York City

Larry Beinhart
  • Tony Casella: family-man private investigator in New York City

Carol Lea Benjamin
  • Rachel Alexander: private investigator and dog trainer and Dashiell, her Pit Bull in New York City

Carole Berry
  • Bonnie Indermil: tap dancer and office temp, in New York City

Claudia Bishop
  • Sarah Quilliam, an inn owner, and Meg Quilliam, a chef, in Hemlock Falls, New York
  • Austin McKenzie, a veterinarian, and his wife Madeline, in Trumansburg in upstate New York

Ethan Black
  • Conrad Voort: NYPD’s richest detective in New York City

Barbara Block
  • Robin Light: pet store owner in Syracuse, New York

Lawrence Block
  • John Keller: hit-man in New York City
  • Bernie Rhodenbar: burglar and bookseller in New York City
  • Matt Scudder: reformed alcoholic and unlicensed private eye, in New York City

Michael Bowen
  • Thomas Curry, an ex-lawyer, and Sandrine Cadette Curry, a Girl Friday, in a law firm in 1960s New York City

Rhys Bowen
  • Molly Murphy: Irish immigrant in early 20th-century who wants to be a private investigator, in New York City

Edgar Box
  • Peter Cutler Sargeant II: public relations consultant in New York City

Eleanor Boylan
  • Clara Gamadge: widow of Henry, the forgery expert, in New York City

Carol Brennan
  • Emily Silver: actress in New York City
  • Liz Wareham: 40-ish public relations consultant in New York City

Toni Brill
  • Midge Cohen: a children’s author fluent in Russian in Brooklyn, New York

Maggie Bruce
  • Lili Marino: moving from Brooklyn to Walden Corners, New York, in the Gourd Craft mysteries

Anthony Bruno
  • Bert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi, FBI agents in New York City

Carole Bugge
  • Claire Rawlings: book editor with a 12-year-old ward in New York City

Meg Cabot
  • Heather Wells: 28 year-old former teen idol turned private investigator, in New York City

P.M. Carlson
  • Maggie Ryan: statistician and professor in New York City

Caleb Carr
  • John Schuyler Moore: turn-of-the-century journalist in New York City

Tori Carrington
  • Sofie Metropolis: Greek-American private investigator, in Queens, New York City

Charlotte Carter
  • Nanette Hayes: a jazz-playing saxophonist, in New York City

Jerome Charyn
  • Sidney Holden: hit-man in New York City
  • Isaac Sidel: deputy police commissioner, later Mayor, in New York City

Thomas Chastain
  • Max Kauffman, an NYPD inspector, and J.T. Spanner, a private investigator, in New York City

Suzanne Chazin
  • Georgia Skeehan: a rookie fire marshal in New York City

George Chesbro
  • Dr. Robert “Mongo” Frederickson: dwarf criminology professor and former circus gymnast in New York City
  • Veil Kendry: painter and adventurer in New York City

Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
  • Margo Green: natural history museum curator in New York City

Joyce Christmas
  • Lady Margaret Priam: British society lady living in New York City

Jill Churchill
  • Lily Brewster, socialite and her brother, Robert Brewster, victims of the stock market crash of 1929, in the Grace and Favor mysteries

Harlan Coben
  • Myron Bolitar: injured basketball player turned sports agent in New York City

Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake)
  • Mitch Tobin: ex-cop private investigator, in Queens, New York

Reed Farrel Coleman
  • Dylan Klein: insurance investigator in New York City
  • Moe Prager: ex-cop in 1980s New York City

Max Allan Collins
  • Maggie Starr: America’s most famous ex-striptease artist, now running her late husband’s newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City

Michael Collins
  • Dan Fortune: one-armed Polish-Lithuanian private investigator in New York City

Thomas H. Cook
  • Frank Clemons: homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later a private eye in New York City

Cleo Coyle
  • Clair Cosi: manager of the Village Blend, a landmark coffeehouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village, in the Coffeehouse mysteries

Isis Crawford
  • Bernie and Libby Simmons: caterers in Longely, New York, in the Mystery with Recipes series

David Cray (Stephen Solomita)
  • Julie Brennan: NYPD detective in New York City

Camilla T. Crespi
  • Simona Griffo: art buyer for an advertising firm and gourmet cook in New York City

Amanda Cross
  • Kate Fansler: university English professor in New York City

E.V. Cunningham
  • John Comaday, a police commissioner, and Larry Cohen, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, in New York City
  • Harvey Krim: NYPD detective in New York City
Elizabeth Daly
  • Henry Gamadge: author, bibliophile, and forgery expert, in New York City

Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Julie Hayes: actress turned gossip columnist and fortune teller, in New York City
  • Lieutenant Marks: detective in New York City
  • Mrs. Norris: Scottish housekeeper and amateur sleuth, and Jasper Tully, a DA investigator, in New York City

William L. DeAndrea
  • Niccolo Benedetti: world renowned criminologist-professor in Sparta, New York
  • Matt Cobb: investigator for network television in New York City
  • Clifford Driscoll: no-named American spy in New York City

Jeffery Deaver
  • Lincoln Rhyme, a disabled ex-head of NYPD forensics, and Amelia Sachs, a rookie beat cop in New York City
  • Rune: aspiring filmmaker with punk tendencies, in New York City

Ed Dee
  • Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory: police detective partners in New York City

Nelson DeMille
  • John Corey: NYPD detective in Long Island, New York
  • Joe Keller: NYPD homicide detective in New York City
  • Joe Ryker: NYPD Homicide detective in New York City

Jane Dentinger
  • Jocelyn O’Roarke: an actress in New York City

Stephen Dobyns
  • Charlie Bradshaw: ex-cop turned detective in Saratoga Springs, New York

John Donohue
  • Connor Burke: university professor and martial-arts student, in New York City

Mignon G. Eberhart
  • Sara (Sally) Keate: nurse in New York

Rosemary Edghill
  • Karen Hightower: (aka Bast), white witch and graphic designer in New York City

Grace F. Edwards
  • Mali Anderson: black female ex-NYPD cop turned sleuth in Harlem, New York

Selma Eichler
  • Desiree Shapiro: 5' 2" queen-sized private investigator in New York City

Linda Fairstein
  • Alex Cooper: Assistant District Attorney in New York City

Gillian B. Farrell
  • Annie McGrogan: actor and private investigator in New York City

Bruno Fischer
  • Ben Helm: ex-cop turned private investigator in New York City

Rae Foley
  • John Harland: in New York City
  • Hiram Potter: wealthy young man in New York City and New England

Stephen Frey
  • Christian Gillette: CEO of Everest Capital, a Manhattan-based investment firm, in New York City

Kinky Friedman
  • Kinky Friedman: country and western singer turned sleuth in New York City

Ruthe Furie
  • Fran Kirk: an ex-battered wife turned private investigator working for an insurance company, in Buffalo, New York

Jim Fusilli
  • Terry Orr: newly-licensed private investigator and his daughter Bella, in Manhattan, New York

Alison Gaylin
  • Samantha Leiffer: preschool teacher in New York City

Tony Gibbs
  • Diana Speed: publishing company chief financial office in New York City
  • Gillian Verdean: boat owner in Long Island, New York

Leslie Glass
  • Cassandra (Cassie) Sales: 50 year-old housewife dealing with her workaholic wine importer husband’s stroke in Long Island, New York
  • April Woo: police officer in New York City

John Godey
  • Jack Albany: small-time actor mistaken for a Mafia hit-man, in New York City

Robert Goldsborough
  • Nero Wolfe: private eye and gourmet in New York City (continuation of Rex Stout series)

Ed Gorman
  • Tobin: a hot-tempered movie critic in New York City

Bill Granger
  • Devereaux: AKA The November Man, a field intelligence agent for R Section, in New York City

Gallagher Gray (Katy Munger)
  • T.S. Hubbert, a retired personnel director, and 84-year old Auntie Lil, retired from the garment industry, in New York City, in the Partners in Crime series

Anna Katherine Green
  • Ebenezer Gryce: detective with the New York police
  • Caleb Sweetwater: policeman in New York

Martha Grimes
  • Emma Graham: young girl in La Porte, New York

Isidore Haiblum
  • James Shaw: Jewish private investigator in New York City
  • Morris Weiss: Yiddish detective at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City

J.P. Hailey (Parnell Hall)
  • Steve Winslow: court room attorney in New York City

Parnell Hall
  • Stanley Hastings: married actor and private eye in New York City

David Handler
  • Mitch Berger: New York film critic, and Desiree “Des” Mirty, a black police detective, in Dorset, Connecticut

Jonathan Harrington
  • Danny O’Flaherty: American teacher researching his family’s roots in Ireland, and in New York City

Lee Harris
  • Jane Bauer: detective in the NYPD unsolved crimes department, in New York City
  • Christine Bennett: ex-nun in New York City

James Neal Harvey
  • Ben Tolliver: NYPD lieutenant in New York City

Richard Hawke (Tim Cockey)
  • Fritz Malone: private investigator, and bastard son of a former police commissioner, in New York City

Sparkle Hayter
  • Robin Hudson: cable news reporter in New York City

William Heffernan
  • Paul Devlin: NYPD detective in New York City

Chester Himes
  • Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson: detectives in Harlem, living in Astoria, Queens, New York

Jane Stanton Hitchcock
  • Jo Slater: sociopathic socialite in New York City

Edward D. Hoch
  • Simon Ark: 2000 year-old Coptic priest, in New York City

Isabelle Holland
  • Rev. Claire Aldington: psychologist and Episcopal priest at St. Anselm’s, in Manhattan, New York

S.W. Hubbard
  • Frank Bennett: police chief in Trout Run, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York

Charlie Huston
  • Henry Thompson: former high school star baseball player, now a bartender with a drinking problem in Paul’s Place, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City
  • Joe Pitt: rogue private investigator and vampire, in Manhattan, New York City

Eleanor Hyde
  • Lydia Miller: 30-something fashion editor in New York City

Susan Isaacs
  • Judith Singer: resident of Long Island, New York

Michael Jahn
  • Bill Donovan: Chief of Special Investigations, New York City

Daniel Judson
  • Declan (Mac) MacManus: struggling 30-something part-time private investigator living above a bar, in Southampton, New York
Michael Karol
  • Ray Abreu: a gay vampire writer in New York City

Larry Karp
  • Dr. Thomas Purdue: neurologist and antique music box collector-restorer, in New York City

David A. Kaufelt
  • Wyn Lewis: real estate attorney, on Long Island, New York

Judith Kelman
  • Sarah Spooner: assistant district attorney with family problems, in New York

Baynard Kendrick
  • Captain Duncan Maclain: blinded by gas in WWI, working as a detective, assisted by his wife Rena, and Spud Savage, in New York City

Michael Kilian
  • Bedford Green: art gallery owner and his assistant Sloan Smith, in 1920s Greenwich Village, New York

Frank King (Lydia Adamson)
  • Sally Tepper: unemployed actress with five dogs in New York City

Elsa Klensch
  • Sonya Iverson: producer of the network newsmagazine “The Donna Fuller Show” in New York City

Chris Knopf
  • Sam Acquillo: 50-something, retired engineer, in Southampton, Long Island, New York

Edward Koch
  • Edward Koch: Mayor of New York City

Ed Lacy
  • Lee Hayes: black police detective, in New York City
  • Dave Wintino: brash new cop in New York City

Cecile Lamalle
  • Charly Poisson: chef and co-owner of La Fermette, the best (and only) French restaurant in Van Buren County, upstate New York

Emma Lathen
  • John Putnam Thatcher: Wall Street financial whiz, based in New York City

Hilda Lawrence
  • Mark East: private investigator from New York City, and spinsters Beulah Pond and Bessy Petty, in New England

Con Lehane
  • Brian McNulty: bartender in 1980s Manhattan, New York City

Lawrence Light
  • Karen Glick: feature writer for a Wall Street magazine, in New York City

Frances and Richard Lockridge
  • Merton Heimrich: lieutenant for the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification, in The Corners, Putnam County, New York
  • Paul Lane: detective working out of the 19th Precinct in New York City
  • Jerry and Pam North: book publisher and his wife, along with Bill Weigand and Sergeant Mullins, police officers, in New York City
  • Nathan Shapiro: a Jewish cop usually working in homicide under Bill Weigand, in New York City
  • Bernie Simmons: assistant district attorney in New York City

Randye Lordon
  • Sydney Sloan: lesbian private investigator in New York City, in the Stonewall Inn mysteries

M.K. Lorens
  • Winston Marlowe Sherman: professor in Aisley, New York

Elizabeth Lowell
  • St. Kilda Consulting: Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can’t go

John Mackie
  • Thornton Savage: NYPD detective in New York City

Robert MacLeod (Bill Knox)
  • Talos Cord: United Nations troubleshooter in New York City

Mary Jane Maffini
  • Charlotte Adams: 5-foot tall professional organizer, in upstate Woodbridge, New York

Dan Mahoney
  • Brian McKenna: a police detective in New York City
  • Cisco Sanchez: a police detective in New York City

Jaye Maiman
  • Robin Miller: lesbian romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator, in New York City

David Markson
  • Harry Fannin: private detective, in 1960s New York City

Margaret Maron
  • Sigrid Harald: police lieutenant in New York City

William Maltese
  • Stud Draqual: maybe gay, maybe not CEO of Draqual Fashions, and a much-in-demand New York City haute-couture fashion designer of ladies' silk underwear

Irene Marcuse
  • Anita Servi: a social worker tending the elderly in Manhattan, New York

William Marshall
  • Tillman and Muldoon: policemen in 1880s New York City

Rosemary Martin (Resemary Stevens)
  • Bebe Bennett: executive secretary in a modeling agency in 1960s New York City in the Murder a-Go-Go series

Michele Martinez
  • Melanie Vargas: federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, New York

Amanda Matetsky
  • Paige Turner: mystery novelist and crime reporter, and a Korean War widow, in 1950s New York City

Ed McBain
  • 87th Precinct cops: in Isola, New York

Robert McCammon
  • Matthew Corbett: young magistrate’s clerk, in 1699 Carolina and 1703 New York City

Helen McCloy
  • Basil Willing: psychiatrist and sleuth, in New York, and later Boston, Massachusetts

Grant McCrea
  • Rick Redman: lawyer, drinker, rookie investigator, father, and poker hound, in New York Cit

Ralph M. McInerny
  • Philip Knight: a New York PI, and his brother, Roger Knight, a philosophy professor in South Bend, Indiana

Adrian McKinty
  • Michael Forsythe: illegal immigrant from Belfast, Northern Ireland, in New York City

Frank Megna
  • Johnny DeMarco: after five years as a private investigator, wins a comeback fight at age 40 in Brooklyn, New York

Annette Meyers
  • Olivia Brown: bohemian poet and women's rights advocate in the 1920s Greenwich Village, New York
  • Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon: Wall Street headhunters

Maan Meyers
  • The Tonneman Family: from New Amsterdam in 1664, to New York City in 1895

Martin Meyers
  • Patrick Hardy: private eye in New York City

Kasey Michaels
  • Maggie Kelly: writer of historical romances, dumped by her publisher, starts writing mysteries, in New York City

John Misak
  • John Keegan: a homicide detective in New York City

Miriam Grace Monfredo
  • Glynis Tryon: independent thinker and librarian, in mid-1800s New York, in the Seneca Falls mysteries

Harker Moore
  • James Sakura: Japanese-American NYPD lieutenant in New York City

Reggie Nadelson
  • Artie Cohen: Moscow-born NYPD cop, later a private investigator, based in New York City

Kris Neri
  • Tracy Eaton: mystery writer and sleuth in New York City

Christopher Newman
  • Joe Dante: maverick cop in New York City

Meg O’Brien
  • Jessica “Jesse” James: investigative reporter in Rochester, New York

Thomas O’Callaghan
  • John W. Driscoll: homicide detective lieutenant in New York City

Carol O’Connell
  • Kathleen Mallory: police detective in New York City

Shannon O’Cork
  • T.T. Baldwin: a sports photographer in New York City

Lillian O’Donnell
  • Mici Anhalt: Crime Victims’ Compensation Board in New York City
  • Norah Mulcahaney: homicide detective in New York City
  • Gwenn Ramadge: private investigator in New York City

Leslie O’Kane
  • Molly Masters: cartoonist and greeting card entrepreneur in Albany, New York

David Osborn
  • Margaret Barlow: a 50-something freelance journalist in New York City
Ellen Pall
  • Juliet Bodine: successful writer of Regency novels and ex-professor of English literature at Barnard in New York City

Linda Palmer
  • Morgan Tyler: 30-year-old widow, the head writer of the daytime drama “Love of My Life” in New York City

Stuart Palmer
  • Hildegarde Withers: schoolma’am in New York, later retired to Los Angeles, California

Orania Papazoglou (Jane Haddam)
  • Patience Campbell McKenna: 6-ft romance novelist turned crime writer in New York

Barbara Paul
  • Enrico Caruso: Italian tenor in New York City
  • Marian Larch: police officer in New York City

Hugh Pentecost (Judson Philips)
  • Pierre Chamburn: the resident manager of the Hotel Beaumont in New York City

Thomas Perry
  • Jane Whitefield: Native American guide in Deganawida, New York

T.J. Phillips (Tom Savage)
  • Joe Wilder: a playwright and novelist in New York City

Marissa Piesman
  • Nina Fischman: attorney in New York City

Robert L. Pike (Robert L. Fish)
  • Lieutenant Clancy: no nonsense, honest cop in New York City

Julia Pomeroy
  • Abby Silvernale: newly-widowed thirty-year old waitress in upstate Bantam, New York

Zelda Popkin
  • Mary Carner: department store detective, in New York City

Ellery Queen
  • Ellery Queen: author in Manhattan, New York

Peter Quinn
  • Fintan Dunne: hard-boiled detective in pre-World War II New York City

Robert J. Randisi
  • Nick Delvecchio: private eye in Brooklyn, New York
  • Dennis McQueen: detective sergeant in New York City
  • Miles Jacoby: boxer turned PI in New York City

Cornelia Read
  • Madeline Dare: former dubutante in 1980s New York and Massachusettss

Robert Reeves
  • Cellini Smith: an accountant for the Mob in New York City, turned honest private investigator in Los Angeles, California

Herbert Resnicow
  • Ed and Warren Baer: father and son detective team, in Long Island, New York
  • Marcus Aurelius Burr: sportswriter in New York City
  • Alexander Gold: construction engineer and puzzle maven, in New York City

Shelly Reuben
  • Fritillary “Tilly” Quilter, an arson investigator, and Isaac “Ike” Blessing, a private detective, in New York City

J.D. Robb
  • Eve Dallas: homicide lieutenant in futuristic New York City

M.J. Rose
  • Dr. Morgan Snow: sex therapist in the Butterfield Institute in New York City

Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen)
  • Drury Lane: a Shakespearian actor retired due to progressive deafness, on the Hudson River, New York

S.J. Rozan
  • Lydia Chin: 30-something Chinese American private eye, and Bill Smith, a 40-something Army brat private eye in New York City

Greg Rucka
  • Atticus Kodiak: a bodyguard in New York City

Mark Sadler (Michael Collins)
  • Paul Shaw: private investigator, and partner in Thayer, Shaw, and Delaney, in New York City and Los Angeles, California

Lawrence Sanders
  • Timothy Cone: Wall Street financial detective in New York City
  • Edward X. “Iron Balls” Delaney: retired chief of detectives in New York City

Jonathan Santlofer
  • Kate McKinnon: former NYPD cop who traded in her badge for a PhD in art history, in New York City
  • Nate Rodriguez: talented NYPD police sketch artist in New York City

Beth Saulnier
  • Alex Bernier,: Gen-X reporter, in upstate New York

Margaret Scherf
  • Emily and Henry Bryce: interior decorators in Manhattan, New York City
  • Lt. Ryan: cop in New York City

Sandra Scoppettone
  • Lauren Laurano: lesbian private investigator in Manhattan, New York City
  • Faye Quick: a PI in 1943 in New York City

Anne Seale
  • Jo Jacuzzo: a charismatic lesbian in Buffalo, New York

Louise Shaffer
  • Angie DaVito: TV soap opera producer in New York City

Joe Sharkey & Angela Amato
  • Gerry Conte: undercover cop turned defense attorney in New York City

Randall Silvis
  • Edgar Allan Poe: an author in 1800s New York City

Dan Simmons
  • Joe Kurtz: ex-private eye, ex-con in Buffalo, New York

Bob Sloan
  • Lenny Bliss: homicide detective in Manhattan, New York City

Evelyn E. Smith
  • Susan Melville: spinster art teacher and painter, who becomes a freelance assassin, in New York City

Martin Cruz Smith
  • Roman Grey: Gypsy art dealer in New York City

Stephen Solomita
  • Stanley Moodrow: cop turned private investigator, in New York City

Troy Soos
  • Rebecca Davies: a child of privilege running a home for desperate women, and Marshall Webb, Rebecca’s beau, a freelance reporter for Harper’s Weekly who secretly pens dime novels

Julia Spencer-Fleming
  • Clare Fergusson: newly-ordained Episcopal priest, and Russ Van Alystyne, Chief of Police, in Millers Kill, New York

Peter Spiegelman
  • John March: black sheep of a staid merchant-banking family, now an ex-deputy sheriff working as a private investigator, in Manhattan, New York

Mickey Spillane
  • Mike Hammer: private eye in New York City

Bill Stackhouse
  • Ed McAvoy: police chief in Ulster County, New York

Richard Stark (Donald Westlake)
  • Alan Grofield: actor and part-time bank robber, in New York City
  • Parker: cold-blooded professional thief in New York City

Jason Starr
  • Non-series books set in New York City

Charlie Stella
  • Non-series books centered in New York City

Richard Stevenson
  • Donald Strachey: gay private investigator, and Timothy Calahan, a legislative aide for a New York state senator, in Albany, New York

Hampton Stone (Aaron Mark Stein)
  • Jeremiah X. Gibson: assistant district attorney in New York City

Jonathan Stone
  • Julian Palmer: police lieutenant, and Winston Edwards, a former cop, in Troy, New York

Rex Stout
  • (William) Tecumseh (Sherman) Fox: detective in New York
  • Nero Wolfe: private investigator and gourmet, and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, in New York City

David Stukas
  • Robert Wilsop, a recovered Catholic and copywriter for feminine hygiene products, Michael Stark, the oversexed heir-apparent to a herpes ointment fortune, and Monette O’Reilley, a towering lesbian and star player of the Leaping Lesbians soccer team and graphic artist in New York

Jennifer Sturman
  • Rachel Benjamin: investment banker and amateur sleuth, based in New York City

Robert K. Tanenbaum
  • Roger “Butch” Karp: Criminal Courts Bureau chief and Marlene Ciampi, assistant District Attorney in 1970s New York City

Victoria Thompson
  • Sarah Brandt: midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, in the Gaslight Mysteries

Ernest Tidyman
  • John Shaft: tough, black private detective in New York City

Phillip Tomasso
  • Nicholas Tartaglia: private investigator in Spencerport, New York

Lawrence Treat
  • Commander Bill Decker, Mitch Taylor, a veteran police officer, and his sidekick Jub Freeman, police detectives in New York City
  • Carl Wayward: professor of psychology, based in New York

Kerry Tucker
  • Libby Kincaid: a magazine photographer in New York City

Dorothy Uhnak
  • Christie Opara: police officer in New York City

Lisa Unger (Lisa Miscione)
  • Ridley Jones: freelance writer in New York City

Andrew H. Vachss
  • Burke: outlaw soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City

S.S. Van Dine
  • Philo Vance: art connoisseur and private investigator in New York City

Michael Venning (Craig Rice)
  • Melville Fairr: lawyer in New York

Noreen Wald
  • Jacqueline “Jake” O’Hara: ghost writer in Manhattan, New York

Marilyn Wallace
  • The Taconic Hills mysteries, in New York

Hillary Waugh
  • Simon Kaye: private investigator in New York City
  • Frank Sessions: homicide detective lieutenant, Manhattan North, in New York City
  • Sheridan Wesley: private investigator in New York City

Donald E. Westlake
  • John Dortmunder: criminal master planner in New York City

Carolyn Wheat
  • Cass Jameson: criminal lawyer in Brooklyn, New York

Anne White
  • Lake George mysteries: in upstate New York

Polly Whitney
  • Mary "Ike" Tygart: television news producer, and Abby Abagnarro, a television news director, in New York City

Collin Wilcox
  • McCloud: a New Mexico marshal in New York City

Kate Wilhelm
  • Charlie Meiklejohn: ex-arson investigator P.I., and Constance Leidl, a psychologist, in New York

Barbara Jaye Wilson
  • Brenda Midnigh: milliner in Greenwich Village, New York

David Wiltse
  • John Becker: FBI agent in New York City

Don Winslow
  • Neal Carey: youthful pickpocket turned private investigator, in New York City

Brian M. Wiprud
  • Garth Carson: taxidermy dealer based in New York City

K.J.A. Wishnia
  • Filomena Buscarsela: NYPD cop from Ecuador, who becomes an apprentice private eye, in New York City

Matt Witten
  • Jacob Burn: at-home Dad and part-time scriptwriter, in Saratoga Springs, New York City

Stuart Woods
  • Stone Barrington: ex-cop attorney in New York City

Dorian Yeager
  • Victoria Bowering: 6-ft-redhead sometime-actress in New York City

Angela Zeman
  • Mrs. Risk, a “righter-of-wrongs,” has been called a witch in Wyndham-by-the-Sea, New York

Sharon Zukowski
  • Blaine Stewart: ex-cop turned private investigator in New York City

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