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100 American Crime Writers
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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- ‘Out of the Venetian Vase’: From Golden Age to Hard-boiled
- After These Mean Streets: Crime Fiction and the Chandler Inheritance
- 1 Megan Abbott
- 2 Paul Auster
- 3 W.T. Ballard
- 4 Ann Bannon
- 5 Robert Bloch
- 6 Lawrence Block
- 7 Leigh Brackett
- 8 Gil Brewer
- 9 Fredric Brown
- 10 Howard Browne
- 11 Edward Bunker
- 12 James Lee Burke
- 13 W.R. Burnett
- 14 James M. Cain
- 15 Paul Cain
- 16 Truman Capote
- 17 John Dickson Carr
- 18 Vera Caspary
- 19 Raymond Chandler
- 20 Harlan Coben
- 21 Max Allan Collins
- 22 Richard Condon
- 23 Michael Connelly
- 24 Patricia Cornwell
- 25 Robert Crais
- 26 James Crumley
- 27 Carroll John Daly
- 28 Norbert Davis
- 29 Mignon G. Eberhart
- 30 James Ellroy
- 31 Janet Evanovich
- 32 William Faulkner
- 33 Kenneth Fearing
- 34 Rudolph Fisher
- 35 Kinky Friedman
- 36 Jacques Futrelle
- 37 Erle Stanley Gardner
- 38 William Campbell Gault
- 39 David Goodis
- 40 Sue Grafton
- 41 Davis Grubb
- 42 Frank Gruber
- 43 Dashiell Hammett
- 44 Thomas Harris
- 45 Carl Hiaasen
- 46 George V. Higgins
- 47 Patricia Highsmith
- 48 Tony Hillerman
- 49 Chester Himes
- 50 Roy Huggins
- 51 Dorothy B. Hughes
- 52 Day Keene
- 53 Jonathan Kellerman
- 54 C. Daly King
- 55 Jonathan Latimer
- 56 Dennis Lehane
- 57 Elmore Leonard
- 58 Ira Levin
- 59 Elizabeth Linington
- 60 Eleazar Lipsky
- 61 John Lutz
- 62 John D. MacDonald
- 63 Ross Macdonald
- 64 Dan J. Marlowe
- 65 Ed McBain
- 66 Horace McCoy
- 67 William P. McGivern
- 68 Margaret Millar
- 69 Walter Mosley
- 70 Marcia Muller
- 71 Frederick Nebel
- 72 Barbara Neely
- 73 William F. Nolan
- 74 Sara Paretsky
- 75 Robert B. Parker
- 76 George Pelecanos
- 77 Edgar Allan Poe
- 78 Melville Davisson Post
- 79 Richard S. Prather
- 80 Bill Pronzini
- 81 Ellery Queen (aka Dannay and Lee)
- 82 Arthur B. Reeve
- 83 Mary Roberts Rinehart
- 84 James Sallis
- 85 George S. Schuyler
- 86 Viola Brothers Shore
- 87 Iceberg Slim
- 88 Mickey Spillane
- 89 Rex Stout
- 90 Jim Thompson
- 91 Ernest Tidyman
- 92 Lawrence Treat
- 93 S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright)
- 94 Joseph Wambaugh
- 95 Carolyn Wells
- 96 Donald E. Westlake
- 97 Raoul Whitfield
- 98 Charles Willeford
- 99 Charles Williams
- 100 Cornell Woolrich
- Bibliography
- Suggested Reading
- Index
