List of crime writers

Crime writers may include the authors of any sub-genre of crime fiction, including Detective fiction, Mystery fiction, or hard-boiled fiction. Note that some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
* Susan Wittig Albert
* Boris Akunin
* Margery Allingham, (1904-1966)
* Eric Ambler, (1909-1998)
* Sarah Andrews
* Jake Arnott
* Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
* John Baker
* John Franklin Bardin
* Robert Barnard
* Simon Beckett
* George Bellairs
* Robert Leslie Bellem
* E.C. Bentley, (1875-1956)
* Anthony Berkeley, pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox, (1893–1971)
* Earl Derr Biggers, (1884-1933)
* Lawrence Block
* Simon Brett
* Fredric Brown, (1906-1972)
* Miles Burton, pseudonym of John Rhode
* James M. Cain, (1892-1977)
* Bernard Capes (1870-1918)
* John Dickson Carr, (1906-1977)
* Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959)
* Kate Charles,
* Leslie Charteris, (1907-1993)
* G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936)
* Grigory Chkhartishvili
* Agatha Christie, (1890-1976)
* Carol Higgins Clark - "Regan Reilly" mysteries
* Brian Cleeve, (1921-2003)
* Harlan Coben
* Max Allan Collins
* Michael Collins, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds
* Michael Connelly
* Patricia Cornwell
* Robert Crais
* John Creasey
* Edmund Crispin (pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery), (1921-1978)
* Freeman Wills Crofts, (1879-1957)
* Amanda Cross, pseudonym of Carolyn Heilbrun, (1926-2003)
* James Crumley
*Jordan Dane
* Lester Dent, (1904-1959)
* Colin Dexter
* Michael Dibdin
* Peter Dickinson
* Stephen Dobyns
* R. B. Dominic (pseudonym of Emma Lathen)
* Tim Dorsey (pseudonym of Serge A. Storms)
* John E. Douglas
* Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)
* Charles Drummond (pseudonym of Kenneth Giles)
* Martin Edwards (author)
* James Ellroy
* Loren D. Estleman
* Janet Evanovich
* Antonia Fraser
* Kinky Friedman
* Gayleen Froese
* Jacques Futrelle, (1875-1912)
* Erle Stanley Gardner (numerous pseudonyms), (1889-1970)
* Anthony Gilbert
* Michael Gilbert
* Kenneth Giles
* Ann Granger
* David Lohr
* Sue Grafton
* Anna Katharine Green, (1846-1935)
* Elizabeth Gunn
* James Hadley Chase
* Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961)
* Cyril Hare
* Mo Hayder
* J.M. Hayes
* Havank (pseudonym of Hans van der Kallen) (1904-1964)
* Tim Heald
* Georgette Heyer, (1902-1974)
* Carl Hiaasen
* Patricia Highsmith, (1921-1995)
* Reginald Hill (numerous pseudonyms), (born 1936)
* Tony Hillerman
* John Buxton Hilton, (1921 - 1986)
* Chester Himes
* Francis Iles, pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox, (1893–1971)
* Michael Innes, pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart, (1906-1994)
* P.D. James
* Marshall Jevons
* Michael Kenyon, (1931 - 2005)
* Laurie R. King
* Andrew Klavan
* Ronald Knox, (1888-1957)
* Harry Kemelman (1908-1996)
* Emma Lathen (Martha Henissart and Mary Jane Latsis)
* Donna Leon
* Elmore Leonard
* E.C.R. Lorac (also wrote as Carol Carnac), (1884-1959)
* Gabrielle Lord
* Gayle Lynds
* Shane Maloney
* Ngaio Marsh, (1895-1982)
* William Marshall
* Peter May - Writer
* Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter), (born 1926)
* Cameron McCabe aka Ernest Borneman
* James McClure
* Val McDermid
* Edmund McGirr (pseudonym of Kenneth Giles)
* Milton Scott Michel
* Denise Mina
* Gwen Moffat
* Christopher G. Moore
* David Morrell
* Clare Munnings (Jill Ker Conway and Elizabeth Topham Kennan)
* Margaret Murphy
* Beverley Nichols
* Joyce Carol Oates
* Rodrigues Ottolengui, (1861-1937)
* Sara Paretsky
* Edith Pargeter (also wrote as Ellis Peters), (1913-1995)
* Robert B. Parker
* Hayford Peirce
* Twist Phelan
* Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)
* Bill Pronzini
* Lisa Pulitzer
* Ellery Queen (pseudonym of various authors)
* Ian Rankin
* Clayton Rawson
* Kathy Reichs
* Ruth Rendell (also writes as Barbara Vine)
* John Rhode
* Peter Robinson
* Craig Russell (British author)
* C. J. Sansom
* Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957)
* Cathy Scott (true crime author and journalist)
* John Silvester
* Georges Simenon, (1903-1989)
* John Sladek
* Anthony Neil Smith
* Joan Smith
* Julia Spencer-Fleming
* Mickey Spillane
* Rex Stout, (1886-1975)
* Leonie Swann
* Cheryl Kaye Tardif
* Andrew Taylor
* Josephine Tey, (1896-1952)
* Jim Thompson
* M J Trow
* James Twining
* Lisa Unger
* Andrew Vachss
* S. S. Van Dine (pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright), (1888-1939)
* Janwillem van de Wetering
* John Holbrook Vance (as Ellery Queen)
* Edgar Wallace
* Lew Wallace
* Minette Walters
* Hillary Waugh
* Donald E. Westlake
* Patricia Wentworth
* Ethel Lina White
* Collin Wilcox
* Charles Willeford
* Cornell Woolrich, (1903-1968)
* Dornford Yates, (1885-1960)

ee 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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