Where Are All the Male Mystery Novelists?

you know, it occurred to me today that i could name a lot of female mystery novelists off the top of my head, but very few men. no, really. this is true. female mystery novelists agatha christie ngaio marsh patricia wentworth josephine tey p.d. james sue grafton patricia cornwell martha grimes anne perry elizabeth peters faye kellerman elizabeth george lilian Jackson braun gillian roberts sara paretsky Janet evanovich ruth rendell margaret truman male mystery novelists tony hillerman that guy who wrote the spenser books that guy who wrote the fletch books that guy who wrote those books about that nypd precinct and i only know the spenser and fletch books because they made a tv series and a movie about them, respectively. the more i thought about this, the odder it seemed. why can i name so...