List of crime writers
Crime writers may include writers of detective fiction and any other sub-genre of crime fiction. Margery Allingham Eric Ambler[?] Isaac Asimov John Franklin Bardin[?] E.C. Bentley Lawrence Block[?] Simon Brett Fredric Brown James M. Cain John Dickson Carr Raymond Chandler G. K. Chesterton Agatha Christie Michael Connelly[?] Patricia Cornwell John Creasey[?] Edmund Crispin[?] Freeman Wills Crofts[?] Colin Dexter Stephen Dobyns[?] Arthur Conan Doyle James Ellroy[?] Elizabeth Ferrars[?] Kinky Friedman Erle Stanley Gardner Anthony Gilbert[?] Michael Gilbert[?] Anna Katharine Green Dashiell Hammett Cyril Hare[?] Georgette Heyer Carl Hiaasen Patricia Highsmith Francis Iles[?] P.D. James Ronald Knox Donna Leon[?] E.C.R. Lorac[?] Val McDermid Ngaio Marsh Sara Paretsky[?] Edith Pargeter (as Ellis Peters) Edgar Allan Poe Ellery Queen Sheila Radley[?] Kathy Reichs[?] Ruth Rendell[?] Dorothy L. Sayers Georges Simenon Joan Smith[?] Mickey Spillane Josephine Tey John Holbrook Vance (as Ellery Queen) Edgar Wallace[?] Hillary Waugh[?] Charles Willeford[?] Cornell Woolrich Dornford Yates