List of crime writers
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Crime writers may include the authors of any sub-genre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled. Note that some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
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[edit] A
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Richard Allen
- Steve Allen
- Boris Akunin
- Margery Allingham
- Eric Ambler
- Darrell Ames
- Sarah Andrews
- Gosho Aoyama
- Jake Arnott
- Isaac Asimov
- H. C. Asterley
- Edward Attard
[edit] B
- Desmond Bagley
- H. C. Bailey
- Deb Baker
- John Baker
- John Franklin Bardin
- Robert Barnard
- Simon Beckett
- George Bellairs
- Robert Leslie Bellem
- E.C. Bentley
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Mark Billingham
- Robert Bloch
- Lawrence Block
- Ernest Bramah
- Paolo Brera
- Simon Brett
- P.J. Brooke
- Pat Brown (criminal profiler)
- Fredric Brown
- John Buchan
- James Lee Burke
- Miles Burton
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
[edit] C
- James M. Cain
- Bernard Capes
- John Dickson Carr
- Kathryn Casey
- Maxime Chattam
- James Hadley Chase
- Jessie Chandler
- Raymond Chandler
- Kate Charles
- Leslie Charteris
- G. K. Chesterton
- Grigory Chkhartishvili
- Agatha Christie
- Carol Higgins Clark
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Paul Cleave
- Brian Cleeve
- Ann Cleeves
- Harlan Coben
- Barbara Colley
- Max Allan Collins
- Michael Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Sheila Connolly
- Robin Cook
- Patricia Cornwell
- Michael Crichton
- Anthony Berkeley Cox
- Philip Craig
- Robert Crais
- John Creasey
- Catherine Crier
- Edmund Crispin
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Amanda Cross
- James Crumley
- Lee Child
[edit] D
- Jordan Dane
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Jeffrey Deaver
- Lester Dent
- William Deverell
- Colin Dexter
- Michael Dibdin
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Peter Dickinson
- S. S. Van Dine
- Doris Miles Disney
- Stephen Dobyns
- R. B. Dominic
- Tim Dorsey
- John E. Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- P. T. Deutermann
[edit] E
- Umberto Eco
- Martin Edwards
- Åke Edwardson
- James Ellroy
- Sven Elvestad
- Loren D. Estleman
- Janet Evanovich
- Stanley Evans
[edit] F
- Diane Fanning
- Charles Finch
- Dick Francis
- Antonia Fraser
- Kinky Friedman
- Gayleen Froese
- Jacques Futrelle
[edit] G
- Leighton Gage
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Anthony Gilbert
- Michael Gilbert
- Kenneth Giles
- Ken Goddard
- Steven Gore
- Ann Granger
- Sue Grafton
- Anna Katharine Green
- Robert van Gulik
- Elizabeth Gunn
- Graham Greene
[edit] H
- Dashiell Hammett
- Cyril Hare
- Margie Harris
- Mo Hayder
- J.M. Hayes
- Havank
- Tim Heald
- Peter Heck
- Georgette Heyer
- Carl Hiaasen
- George V. Higgins
- Patricia Highsmith
- Reginald Hill
- Tony Hillerman
- John Buxton Hilton
- Chester Himes
[edit] I
[edit] J
[edit] K
- Sharon Kahn
- H. R. F. Keating
- Faye Kellerman
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Harry Kemelman
- Simon Kernick
- Michael Kenyon
- Laurie R. King
- Andrew Klavan
- Ronald Knox
[edit] L
- Lori L. Lake
- Josh Lanyon
- Gaylord Larsen
- Stieg Larsson
- Emma Lathen
- John le Carre
- Donna Leon
- Elmore Leonard
- Ira Levin
- E.C.R. Lorac
- Gabrielle Lord
- Gayle Lynds
- Mandy Lovejoy
[edit] M
- Shane Maloney
- Henning Mankell
- Petros Markaris
- John Marquand
- Ngaio Marsh
- William Marshall
- Edward Marston
- Amanda Matetsky
- Peter May - Writer
- Ed McBain
- Cameron McCabe
- James McClure
- Val McDermid
- Iain McDowall
- Edmund McGirr
- Mary McMullen
- Milton Scott Michel
- Zygmunt Miłoszewski
- Denise Mina
- Dreda Say Mitchell
- Gladys Mitchell
- Gwen Moffat
- Rick Mofina
- Christopher G. Moore
- David Morrell
- John Mortimer
- Patricia Moyes
- Marcia Muller
- Clare Munnings
- Margaret Murphy
- Mark Morris
[edit] N
[edit] O
[edit] P
- Sara Paretsky
- Edith Pargeter
- Robert B. Parker
- Surender Mohan Pathak
- James Patterson
- Hayford Peirce
- Don Pendleton
- Linda Pendleton
- Anne Perry
- Ellis Peters
- Twist Phelan
- Mike Phillips
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Bill Pronzini
- Lisa Pulitzer
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Rajesh Kumar
- Edogawa Rampo
- Ian Rankin
- Clayton Rawson
- Satyajit Ray
- Kathy Reichs
- Ruth Rendell
- John Rhode
- Lynda Robinson
- Peter Robinson
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Karen Rose
- Caitlin Rother
- Hemendrakumar Roy
- Jane Rubino
- Craig Russell
[edit] S
- C. J. Sansom
- Robin Sax
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Cathy Scott
- Will Scott
- John Silvester
- Georges Simenon
- Roger L. Simon
- Elizabeth Sims
- Dorothy Simpson
- John Sladek
- Karin Slaughter
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Anthony Neil Smith
- Joan Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Mickey Spillane
- Nancy Springer
- Rex Stout
- Leonie Swann
- Lisa Scottoline
- Samantha Shu
[edit] T
- Cheryl Kaye Tardif
- Andrew Taylor
- Josephine Tey
- Johan Theorin
- Jim Thompson
- M J Trow
- Margaret Truman
- James Twining
[edit] U
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Edgar Wallace
- Lew Wallace
- Minette Walters
- Hillary Waugh
- Betty Webb
- Jeri Westerson
- Donald E. Westlake
- Patricia Wentworth
- Ethel Lina White
- Collin Wilcox
- Charles Willeford
- Cornell Woolrich
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
[edit] See also
- Lists of authors
- List of mystery writers
- List of thriller authors
- List of Asian crime fiction writers
- Detective fiction
- Crime fiction
- Mystery fiction
- The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
- Whodunit
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