List of crime writers
Appearance
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled. Note that some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
If you add any authors to this list, please also consider adding them to the A–Z list of authors.
A–B
- Megan Abbott
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Steve Allen
- Jirō Akagawa
- Boris Akunin
- Margery Allingham
- Eric Ambler
- Sarah Andrews
- Gosho Aoyama
- Charlotte Armstrong
- Jake Arnott
- Gianluca Arrighi
- Taku Ashibe
- Isaac Asimov
- H. C. Asterley
- Edward Attard
- Yukito Ayatsuji
- Desmond Bagley
- H. C. Bailey
- Deb Baker
- John Baker
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- John Franklin Bardin
- Burl Barer
- Robert Barnard
- Nevada Barr
- J. J. Barrie
- Earle Basinsky
- G. D. Baum
- Simon Beckett
- George Bellairs
- Robert Leslie Bellem
- E.C. Bentley
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Mark Billingham
- Robert Bloch
- Lawrence Block
- Deborah Blum
- Ernest Bramah
- Paolo Brera
- Simon Brett
- P. J. Brooke
- Fredric Brown
- Pat Brown
- Ken Bruen
- John Buchan
- John Bude
- James Lee Burke
- Jan Burke
- Miles Burton
C
- James M. Cain
- Paul Cain
- Bernard Capes
- John Dickson Carr
- Jane Casey
- Kathryn Casey
- James Hadley Chase
- Jessie Chandler
- Raymond Chandler
- Kate Charles
- Leslie Charteris
- G. K. Chesterton
- Lee Child
- CHIN Shunshin
- Grigory Chkhartishvili
- Agatha Christie
- Carol Higgins Clark
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Paul Cleave
- Brian Cleeve
- Ann Cleeves
- Harlan Coben
- Liza Cody
- Barbara Colley
- Max Allan Collins
- Michael Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Sheila Connolly
- Robin Cook
- Patricia Cornwell
- Anthony Berkeley Cox
- Chris Culver
- Philip Craig
- Robert Crais
- John Creasey
- Michael Crichton
- Catherine Crier
- Edmund Crispin
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Amanda Cross
- James Crumley
D–F
- Jordan Dane
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Carol Anne Davis
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
- Janet Dawson
- Jeffery Deaver
- Vicki Delaney
- Lester Dent
- P. T. Deutermann
- William Deverell
- Colin Dexter
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- Michael Dibdin
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Peter Dickinson
- S. S. Van Dine
- Doris Miles Disney
- Stacy Dittrich
- Stephen Dobyns
- R. B. Dominic
- Tim Dorsey
- John E. Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- John Dunning
- Umberto Eco
- Edogawa Rampo (The family name is "Edogawa".)
- Martin Edwards
- Åke Edwardson
- Mark Ellis
- James Ellroy
- Sven Elvestad
- Loren D. Estleman
- Janet Evanovich
- Stanley Evans
- Diane Fanning
- Charles Finch
- Paul Finch
- R. Barri Flowers
- Pascale Fonteneau
- Ron Franscell
- Dick Francis
- Antonia Fraser
- Kinky Friedman
- Gayleen Froese
- Jacques Futrelle
G–H
- Leighton Gage
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Anthony Gilbert
- Michael Gilbert
- Kenneth Giles
- Steven Gore
- Ed Gorman
- Caroline Graham
- Ann Granger
- Sue Grafton
- Anna Katharine Green
- John M. Green
- Graham Greene
- Ross Greenwood
- Bryan Gruley
- Robert van Gulik
- Elizabeth Gunn
- Dashiell Hammett
- Cyril Hare
- Kent Harrington
- Margie Harris
- Havank
- Mo Hayder
- J. M. Hayes
- Elizabeth Haynes
- Tim Heald
- Peter Heck
- Georgette Heyer
- Carl Hiaasen
- Keigo Higashino
- George V. Higgins
- Patricia Highsmith
- Reginald Hill
- Tony Hillerman
- John Buxton Hilton
- Chester Himes
- Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
- Dorothy B. Hughes
- Victoria Houston
I–L
- Francis Iles
- Arnaldur Indriðason
- Michael Innes
- Kotaro Isaka
- Shirley Jackson
- P. D. James
- Peter James
- J. A. Jance
- Quintin Jardine
- Marshall Jevons
- Alper Kaya
- H. R. F. Keating
- Carolyn Keene
- Faye Kellerman
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Harry Kemelman
- Michael Kenyon
- Simon Kernick
- Laurie R. King
- Natsuo Kirino
- Kenzo Kitakata
- Kazuhiro Kiuchi
- Andrew Klavan
- Ronald Knox
- William Kent Krueger
- Natsuhiko Kyogoku
- Lori L. Lake
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Gaylord Larsen
- Stieg Larsson
- David Lassman
- Emma Lathen
- Stephen Leather
- John le Carré
- Vanessa Leggett
- Dennis Lehane
- Donna Leon
- Elmore Leonard
- Gaston Leroux
- Ira Levin
- Paul Levine
- Ted Lewis
- Ash Lieb
- Laura Lippman
- Steven Long
- E. C. R. Lorac
- Gabrielle Lord
- Gayle Lynds
M
- John D. MacDonald
- Ross Macdonald
- Shane Maloney
- Henning Mankell
- Petros Markaris
- John Marquand
- Ngaio Marsh
- Faith Martin
- William Marshall
- Jan Mårtenson
- Edward Marston
- Seicho Matsumoto
- Peter May
- Ed McBain
- Cameron McCabe
- James McClure
- Val McDermid
- Dennis McDougal
- Iain McDowall
- Michele McPhee
- Edmund McGirr
- Clive Leo McNeir
- Lee Mellor
- Nicholas Meyer
- Milton Scott Michel
- Margaret Millar
- Zygmunt Miłoszewski
- Denise Mina
- Kanae Minato
- Dreda Say Mitchell
- Gladys Mitchell
- Miyuki Miyabe
- Gwen Moffat
- Rick Mofina
- Christopher G. Moore
- David Morrell
- Mark Morris
- John Mortimer
- Patricia Moyes
- Marcia Muller
- Clare Munnings
- Margaret Murphy
- Susan Murphy-Milano
N–Q
- Magdalen Nabb
- Fuminori Nakamura
- Jo Nesbø
- Beverley Nichols
- Kyotaro Nishimura
- Asa Nonami
- Rintaro Norizuki
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Kido Okamoto
- Go Osaka
- Arimasa Osawa
- Otsuichi
- Rodrigues Ottolengui
- Sara Paretsky
- Edith Pargeter
- Robert B. Parker
- Surender Mohan Pathak
- James Patterson
- Hayford Peirce
- Don Pendleton
- Louise Penny
- Anne Perry
- Anthony Perry
- Ellis Peters
- Mike Phillips
- Scott Phillips
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Nicholas A. Price
- Bill Pronzini
- Lisa Pulitzer
- Ellery Queen
R–S
- Melanie Raabe
- Indra Soundar Rajan
- Ian Rankin
- Clayton Rawson
- Satyajit Ray
- Kathy Reichs
- Ruth Rendell
- Osvaldo Reyes
- John Rhode
- Craig Rice
- Lynda Robinson
- Peter Robinson
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Karen Rose
- Caitlin Rother
- Hemendra Kumar Roy
- S. J. Rozan
- Jane Rubino
- Ann Rule
- Craig Russell
- James Sallis
- C. J. Sansom
- Robin Sax
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Sandra Scoppettone
- Cathy Scott
- Will Scott
- Lisa Scottoline
- Soji Shimada
- John Silvester
- Georges Simenon
- Roger L. Simon
- Dorothy Simpson
- Elizabeth Sims
- John Sladek
- Karin Slaughter
- Aaron Smith
- Alexander Smith
- Anthony Smith
- Joan Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Teresa Solana
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Suzy Spencer
- Mickey Spillane
- Nancy Springer
- Rex Stout
- Linda Stratmann
- Leonie Swann
- Mitzi Szereto
T–Z
- Akimitsu Takagi
- Katsuhiko Takahashi
- Kazuaki Takano
- Tetsuo Takashima
- Andrew Taylor
- Josephine Tey
- Johan Theorin
- Thomas Donna(writer)
- Paul and Mabel Thorne
- M. J. Trow
- Margaret Truman
- James Twining
- Lisa Unger
- Arthur Upfield
- Andrew Vachss
- Edgar Wallace
- Lew Wallace
- Minette Walters
- Hillary Waugh
- Betty Webb
- Charlie Wells
- Jeri Westerson
- Donald E. Westlake
- Patricia Wentworth
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Ethel Lina White
- Collin Wilcox
- Charles Willeford
- Leslie Wolfe
- Cornell Woolrich
- Dornford Yates
- Seishi Yokomizo
- Hideo Yokoyama
- Shuichi Yoshida
- Kyusaku Yumeno
- Helen Zahavi