Crime fiction#Catalogs#Prominent writers

This is a supplement to the Crime fiction article.

* David M. Alexander (1945–)
* Nationality: American
* Ted Allbeury (1917–2005)
* Nationality: British
* Margery Allingham
* Nationality: British
* Eric Ambler
* Nationality: British
* Isaac Asimov
* Nationality: American (Russian born)
* Philip Atlee
* Nationality: American
* Desmond Bagley
* Nationality: British
* John Franklin Bardin
* Nationality: American
* Victor Canning
* Nationality: British
* John Dickson Carr, also wrote as Carter Dickson
* Nationality: American
* Raymond Chandler
* Nationality: American (born in Chicago, Illinois); British (naturalized in 1907)
* Leslie Charteris
* Nationality: British
* G. K. Chesterton
* Nationality: British
* Agatha Christie
* Nationality: British
* Manning Coles
* Nationality: British
* Wilkie Collins
* Nationality: British
* Richard Condon
* Nationality: American
* Patricia Cornwell
* Nationality: American
* Desmond Cory
* Nationality: British
* Edmund Crispin
* Nationality: British
* Deborah Crombie
* Nationality: American
* Lionel Davidson
* Nationality: British
* Arthur Conan Doyle—Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary lists him under Doyle rather than Conan Doyle
* Nationality: British
* Friedrich Dürrenmatt
* Nationality: Swiss
* Umberto Eco
* Nationality: Italian
* Ian Fleming
* Nationality: British
* Brian Freemantle
* Nationality: British
* Alan Furst: Add brief definition or description
* Nationality: American
* Erle Stanley Gardner
* Nationality: American
* John Gardner
* Nationality: British
* Michael Gilbert
* Nationality: British
* Friedrich Glauser
* Nationality: Swiss
* James Grady
* Nationality: American
* Sue Grafton
* Nationality: American
* Martha Grimes
* Nationality: American
* Wolf Haas
* Nationality: Austrian
* William Haggard
* Nationality: British
* Adam Hall
* Nationality: British
* Donald Hamilton
* Nationality: American
* Dashiell Hammett
* Nationality: American
* Georgette Heyer
* Nationality: British
* Patricia Highsmith
* Nationality: American
* Tony Hillerman
* Nationality: American
* Chester Himes
* Nationality: American
* Joseph Hone
* Nationality: British
* Geoffrey Household
* Nationality: British
* Richard Hoyt
* Nationality: American
* Jack D. Hunter
* Nationality: American
* P. D. James
* Nationality: British
* H. R. F. Keating
* Nationality: British
* Faye Kellerman
* Nationality: American
* Jonathan Kellerman
* Nationality: American
* Frederick Knott
* Nationality: British
* Alfred Komarek
* Nationality: Austrian
* Emma Lathen
* Nationality: American
* Maurice Leblanc
* Nationality: French
* Donna Leon
* Nationality: American
* Gaston Leroux
* Nationality: French
* Michael Z. Lewin
* Nationality: American
* Gavin Lyall
* Nationality: British
* John D. MacDonald
* Nationality: American
* Philip MacDonald
* Nationality: British
* Ross Macdonald
* Nationality: American
* Helen MacInnes
* Nationality: British
* Henning Mankell
* Nationality: Swedish
* Ngaio Marsh
* Nationality: New Zealand
* Ed McBain
* Nationality: American
* Charles McCarry
* Nationality: American
* Walter Mosley
* Nationality: American
* James Munro
* Nationality:British
* Sara Paretsky
* Nationality: American
* Anne Perry
* Nationality: British
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Nationality: American
* J. B. Priestley
* Nationality: British
* Ellery Queen, also wrote as Barnaby Ross
* Nationality: American
* Edogawa Rampo (江戸川乱歩)
* Nationality: Japanese
* Clayton Rawson
* Nationality: American
* Ruth Rendell, also writes as Barbara Vine
* Nationality: British
* Reginald Rose
* Nationality: American
* Eva Rossmann
* Nationality: Austrian
* Dorothy L. Sayers
* Nationality: British
* Anthony Shaffer
* Nationality: British
* Georges Simenon
* Nationality: Belgian
* Desmond Skirrow
* Nationality: British
* Julian Symons
* Nationality: British
* Rex Stout
* Nationality: American
* Ross Thomas
* Nationality: American
* Edgar Wallace
* Nationality: British
* Minette Walters
* Nationality: British
* Donald Westlake, also wrote as Richard Stark
* Nationality: American
* Collin Wilcox
* Nationality: American
* Alan Williams
* Nationality: British