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
• Robert Barnard
• 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
• Peter Dickinson
• Stephen Dobyns
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• James Ellroy
• Elizabeth Ferrars
• Kinky Friedman
• Jacques Futrelle
• Erle Stanley Gardner
• Anthony Gilbert
• Michael Gilbert
• Anna Katharine Green
• Dashiell Hammett
• Cyril Hare
• Georgette Heyer
• Carl Hiaasen
• Patricia Highsmith
• Reginald Hill
• Tony Hillerman
• Francis Iles
• Michael Innes
• P.D. James
• Ronald Knox
• Donna Leon
• E.C.R. Lorac
• Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter)
• Val McDermid
• Ngaio Marsh
• Rodrigues Ottolengui
• 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
• Janwillem van de Wetering
• Charles Willeford
• Cornell Woolrich
• Dornford Yates

See also: Lists of authors