Authors and books mentioned in April Fool Dead

Jeff Abbott                                         Do unto Others

Susan Wittig Albert                          China Bayles series

Eric Ambler                                       Epitaph for a Spy

Eric Ambler                                       The Light of Day

Marion Babson                                 Cover-Up Story

Mignon Ballard                                 Angel at Troublesome Creek

Jane Baskin                                     Jane of the Jungle

Earl Derr Biggers                             Charlie Chan series

James Lee Burke

Leslie Charteris                               Simon Templar, The Saint, series

Alisa Craig                                       The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain

Agatha Christie                               Miss Marple novels

Agatha Christie                               The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Robert Crais

Harlan Coben

Bill Crider

Mary Daheim                                   Creeps Suzette

Jo Dereske                                      Miss Zukas series

Franklin W. Dixon                            Hardy Boys series

Nora DeLoach                                 Mama Stalks the Past

Daphne Du Maurier                         Rebecca

Selma Eichler                                  Desiree Shapiro series

Jerrilyn Farmer

Ian Fleming                                     James Bond novels

Celia Fremlin                                  The Spider-Orchid

Erle Stanley Gardner                       Perry Mason series

Andrew Garve                                 Frame-Up

Anne George                                   Murder Shoots the Bull

Thomas Harris                                Hannibal Lector novels

Beverly Hastings

Nathaniel Hawthorne                     The Scarlet Letter

Betsy Haynes

Gar Anthony Haywood

Mary Violet Heberden                     Desmond Shannon series

Patricia Highsmith                           Strangers on a Train

Victoria Holt

Richard Hull                                     The Murder of My Aunt

H. R. F. Keating

Carolyn Keene                                Nancy Drew series

Kathleen Moore Knight                   Design in Diamonds

Elizabeth Lemarchand                    Suddenly, While Gardening

Gregory MacDonald                        Fletch

Philip MacDonald                            The List of Adrian Messenger

Alistair MacLean                              Night without End

Margaret Maron                             Killer Market

John Mortimer                                Rumpole of the Bailey series

Patricia Moyes                                Who Saw Her Die?

Joan Lowery Nixon

B. J. Oliphant                                 Shirley McClintock series

Katherine Hall Page

Ann Perry

Edgar Allan Poe

Louisa Revell                                 Julia Tyler series

Craig Rice                                      Home Sweet Homicide

Mary Roberts Rinehart                  The Circular Staircase

Ann Ripley                                      Murder of a Garden Pest

J. K. Rowling

Dorothy L. Sayers                         Murder Must Advertise

William Shakespeare                    Macbeth

Georges Simenon                         Inspector Maigret novels

Donald J. Sobol                              Encyclopedia Brown series

Mickey Spillane                             Mike Hammer series

George Edward Stanley

Rex Stout                                      And Be a Villain

Julian Symons                              31st of February

Josephine Tey                              The Franchise Affair

Kathy Hogan Trocheck                 To Live and Die in Dixie

Tom Wolfe

Israel Zangwill                             The Big Bow Mystery

Mark Richard Zubro                      A Simple Suburban Murder

Sharon Zukowski                         Blaine Stewart series