| 100% | ANN | 3 | Cleeves who wrote Shetland Island mysteries |
| 42% | CHRISTIE | 8 | Agatha who wrote classic mysteries |
| 42% | ANN | 3 | British novelist Cleeves who writes the "Vera Stanhope" crime series |
| 41% | KEENE | 5 | Carolyn who wrote Nancy Drew mysteries |
| 40% | DONNE | 5 | John who wrote "No Man Is an Island" |
| 40% | JANET | 5 | Evanovich who writes the "Stephanie Plum" mystery series |
| 40% | JASPER | 6 | Fforde who writes the "Thursday Next" mystery novels |
| 39% | CECIL | 5 | Poet Day-Lewis who wrote mysteries as Nicholas Blake |
| 39% | ADAIR | 5 | Gilbert who wrote "Love and Death on Long Island" |
| 39% | DONNE | 5 | Poet John who wrote "No man is an island" |
| 39% | LEHANE | 6 | Dennis who wrote “Shutter Island” and “Mystic River” |
| 39% | NEVADA | 6 | Novelist Barr who writes the Anna Pigeon mystery series |
| 39% | DONNE | 5 | John, poet who wrote that no man is an island |
| 39% | NORA | 4 | Romance novelist Roberts who writes mysteries as J.D. Robb |
| 38% | SARA | 4 | Novelist Paretsky who writes the V.I. Warshawski mystery series |
| 38% | STEVENSON | 9 | Robert Louis who wrote Treasure Island |
| 38% | SOFIE | 5 | With 31-Across, novelist who writes the Magical Cats mystery series |
| 38% | GRAFTON | 7 | Sue who writes the "Alphabet Series" mystery novels featuring Kinsey Millhone |
| 37% | SUE | 3 | Grafton who wrote the 2015 mystery "X" |
| 37% | SUE | 3 | Grafton who wrote 25 "Alphabet Mystery" books |
| 37% | FAYE | 4 | Kellerman who writes Rina Lazarus mystery novels |
| 37% | MIRANDAJAMES | 12 | Novelist who writes the Cat in the Stacks mystery series (2 wds.) |
| 36% | HANCOCK | 7 | Herbie __, pianist who wrote Cantaloupe Island |
| 35% | RUTHRENDELL | 11 | Mystery writer who also wrote under the pen name Barbara Vine (2 wds.) |
| 35% | RUTHRENDELL | 11 | Mystery author who wrote several novels as Barbara Vine: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ALEC | 4 | Waugh who wrote "Island in the Sun" |
| 34% | AGATHA | 6 | ___ Christie, popular mystery novelist who also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott |
| 33% | ODELL | 5 | Scott who wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins" |
| 33% | ODELL | 5 | Scott who wrote ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' |
| 33% | FAYEKELLERMAN | 13 | Novelist who wrote "The Ritual Bath," a murder mystery set in a Jewish community in California (2 wds.) |