"Remember, there are no puzzles in my books; I don't write mysteries."

Pawel has said that she never intended to start writing mysteries, and came upon the idea almost by accident.

White wrote mysteries, as well as war and adventure novels.

After years as a writer, editor and communications director, Tierney began writing mysteries in the late 1980s.

Well, says my master, that is why you cannot write mysteries and crime stories.

"He's written another mystery story and I don't want him writing mysteries."

After his last novel, Stribling continued to write mysteries for various magazines.

Few were published at the time, but Vance continued to write mysteries into the early 1970s.

She went on to write several more teenage and young adult mysteries between 1965 and 1972.