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.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Richard Allen
- Boris Akunin
- Margery Allingham
- Eric Ambler
- Sarah Andrews
- Gosho Aoyama
- Jake Arnott
- Isaac Asimov
- Ann Rule
B
- John Baker
- John Franklin Bardin
- Robert Barnard
- Simon Beckett
- George Bellairs
- Robert Leslie Bellem
- E.C. Bentley
- Earl Derr Biggers
- Lawrence Block
- Simon Brett
- Fredric Brown
- Miles Burton
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
C
- James M. Cain
- Bernard Capes
- John Dickson Carr
- James Hadley Chase
- Raymond Chandler
- Kate Charles
- Leslie Charteris
- G. K. Chesterton
- Grigory Chkhartishvili
- Agatha Christie
- Carol Higgins Clark
- Paul Cleave
- Brian Cleeve
- Harlan Coben
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Max Allan Collins
- Michael Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Patricia Cornwell
- Anthony Berkeley Cox
- Robert Crais
- John Creasey
- Catherine Crier
- Edmund Crispin
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- Amanda Cross
- James Crumley
D
- Jordan Dane
- Lester Dent
- Colin Dexter
- Michael Dibdin
- Peter Dickinson
- S. S. Van Dine
- Stephen Dobyns
- R. B. Dominic
- Tim Dorsey
- John E. Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- P. T. Deutermann
E
F
G
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Anthony Gilbert
- Michael Gilbert
- Kenneth Giles
- Ann Granger
- Sue Grafton
- Anna Katharine Green
- Elizabeth Gunn
- Kenneth Giles
- Robert van Gulik
H
- Dashiell Hammett
- Cyril Hare
- Mo Hayder
- J.M. Hayes
- Havank
- Tim Heald
- Georgette Heyer
- Carl Hiaasen
- Patricia Highsmith
- Reginald Hill
- Tony Hillerman
- John Buxton Hilton
- Chester Himes
I
J
K
- Faye Kellerman
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Simon Kernick
- Michael Kenyon
- Laurie R. King
- Andrew Klavan
- Ronald Knox
- Harry Kemelman
L
M
- Shane Maloney
- Ngaio Marsh
- William Marshall
- Edward Marston
- Peter May - Writer
- Ed McBain
- Cameron McCabe
- James McClure
- Val McDermid
- Iain McDowall
- Edmund McGirr
- Milton Scott Michel
- Denise Mina
- Gwen Moffat
- Rick Mofina
- Christopher G. Moore
- David Morrell
- Clare Munnings
- Margaret Murphy
N
O
P
- Sara Paretsky
- Edith Pargeter
- Robert B. Parker
- Surender Mohan Pathak
- Hayford Peirce
- Twist Phelan
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Bill Pronzini
- Lisa Pulitzer
Q
R
- Rajesh Kumar
- Ian Rankin
- Clayton Rawson
- Hemendrakumar Roy
- Satyajit Ray
- Kathy Reichs
- Ruth Rendell
- John Rhode
- Peter Robinson
- Craig Russell
S
- C. J. Sansom
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Cathy Scott
- John Silvester
- Georges Simenon
- John Sladek
- Anthony Neil Smith
- Joan Smith
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Mickey Spillane
- Rex Stout
- Leonie Swann
- Lisa Scottoline
T
U
V
W
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Edgar Wallace
- Lew Wallace
- Minette Walters
- Hillary Waugh
- Donald E. Westlake
- Patricia Wentworth
- Ethel Lina White
- Collin Wilcox
- Charles Willeford
- Cornell Woolrich
Y
See also
- Lists of authors
- List of mystery writers
- List of thriller authors
- Detective fiction
- Crime fiction
- Mystery fiction
- The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
- Whodunit
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