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