| WESTMACOTT | Mary -, pseudonym under which Agatha Christie wrote 1930 novel Giant's Bread |
| MARYWESTMACOTT | Name under which Agatha Christie wrote non-crime books (4,10) |
| ISAKDINESEN | Pseudonym under which Karen Blixen wrote her first novel Seven Gothic Tales |
| VICARAGE | The Murder at the -; novel in which Agatha Christie introduces readers to Miss Jane Marple and her village of St Mary Mead (8) |
| NEMESIS | Which novel, the last Miss Marple story Agatha Christie wrote, is named after the Greek goddess of revenge? (7) |
| JEANRAY | Pseudonym under which Belgian author Raymundus Joannes de Kremer wrote the 1943 novel Malpertuis (4,3) |
| NICHOLASBLAKE | Pseudonym under which Cecil Day-Lewis wrote detective stories (8,5) |
| MEAD | Fictional village in which Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Marple lives (2,4,4) |
| STMARY | And 6 Fictional village in which Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Marple lives (2,4,4) |
| FLANNOBRIEN | Pseudonym under which writer Brian O'Nolan authored comic novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Pol |
| EDNAFERBER | American author of the 1950 novel Giant (4,6) |
| EDNA | Miss Ferber, author of the 1950 novel Giant (4) |
| FERBER | Edna, author of the 1950 novel Giant (6) |
| ASI | ___ Lay Dying 1930 novel by William Faulkner the title of which is derived from Homer's Odyssey: 2 wds. |
| ASILAYDINGY | 1930 novel about sleeping in dirty pajamas? |
| DELAFIELD | E M ___, author of 1930 novel Diary of a Provincial Lady (9) |
| MALTESE | and 19dn, "The ___", 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett (7,6) |
| CAKESANDALE | 1930 novel whose title comes from "Twelfth Night" |
| STRONG | and 13 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers (6,6) |
| ROGUE | 1930 novel by Hugh Walpole (5,7) |
