100 American Crime Writers Book

Acknowledgements x

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction Steven Powell 1

'Out of the Venetian Vase': From Golden Age to Hard-boiled Steven Powell 6

After These Mean Streets: Crime Fiction and the Chandler Inheritance Steven Powell 11

1 Megan Abbott 16

2 Paul Auster 18

3 W.T. Ballard 20

4 Ann Bannon 22

5 Robert Bloch 25

6 Lawrence Block 29

7 Leigh Brackett 32

8 Gil Brewer 35

9 Fredric Brown 37

10 Howard Browne 39

11 Edward Bunker 41

12 James Lee Burke 45

13 W.R. Burnett 48

14 James M. Cain 51

15 Paul Cain 57

16 Truman Capote 59

17 John Dickson Carr 61

18 Vera Caspary 65

19 Raymond Chandler 67

20 Harlan Coben 73

21 Max Allan Collins 76

22 Richard Condon 80

23 Michael Connelly 83

24 Patricia Cornwell 87

25 Robert Crais 92

26 James Crumley 94

27 Carroll John Daly 96

28 Norbert Davis 99

29 Mignon G. Eberhart 101

30 James Ellroy 103

31 Janet Evanovich 109

32 William Faulkner 112

33 Kenneth Fearing 114

34 Rudolph Fisher 116

35 Kinky Friedman 118

36 Jacques Futrelle 122

37 Erle Stanley Gardner 126

38 William Campbell Gault 132

39 David Goodis 134

40 Sue Grafton 138

41 Davis Grubb 142

42 Frank Gruber 145

43 Dashiell Hammett 147

44 Thomas Harris 153

45 Carl Hiaasen 157

46 George V. Higgins 161

47 Patricia Highsmith 165

48 Tony Hillerman 171

49 Chester Himes 174

50 Roy Huggins 180

51 Dorothy B. Hughes 182

52 Day Keene 184

53 Jonathan Kellerman 186

54 C. Daly King 190

55 Jonathan Latimer 192

56 Dennis Lehane 194

57 Elmore Leonard 198

58 Ira Levin 204

59 Elizabeth Linington 206

60 Eleazar Lipsky 208

61 John Lutz 210

62 John D. MacDonald 212

63 Ross Macdonald 218

64 Dan J. Marlowe 224

65 Ed McBain 226

66 Horace McCoy 232

67 William P. McGivern 237

68 Margaret Millar 239

69 Walter Mosley 244

70 Marcia Muller 249

71 Frederick Nebel 252

72 Barbara Neely 254

73 William F. Nolan 258

74 Sara Paretsky 260

75 Robert B. Parker 266

76 George Pelecanos 270

77 Edgar Allan Poe 275

78 Melville Davisson Post 281

79 Richard S. Prather 283

80 Bill Pronzini 285

81 Ellery Queen (aka Dannay and Lee) 287

82 Arthur B. Reeve 291

83 Mary Roberts Rinehart 293

84 James Sallis 297

85 George S. Schuyler 301

86 Viola Brothers Shore 304

87 Iceberg Slim 306

88 Mickey Spillane 310

89 Rex Stout 315

90 Jim Thompson 319

91 Ernest Tidyman 323

92 Lawrence Treat 325

93 S.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) 327

94 Joseph Wambaugh 331

95 Carolyn Wells 335

96 Donald E. Westlake 337

97 Raoul Whitfield 341

98 Charles Willeford 343

99 Charles Williams 347

100 Cornell Woolrich 350

Bibliography 353

Suggested Reading 358

Index 369