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
- Jacques Futrelle
- 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
- 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
- Charles Willeford
- Cornell Woolrich
- Dornford Yates