Ed McBain (1926–2005)

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1. Ed McBain

   Author of Cop Hater, Fiddlers, The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

2. Lawrence Block

   Author of Hit Man, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, A Long Line of Dead Men

3. Robert B. Parker

   Author of Early Autumn, A Catskill Eagle, The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

4. John D. MacDonald

   Author of Cinnamon Skin, Dress Her in Indigo, A Tan and Sandy Silence

5. Alfred Hitchcock

   Author of Stories Not for the Nervous, More of My Favorites in Suspense, Noose Report

6. Stephen King

   Author of Needful Things, Everything's Eventual, Dolores Claiborne

7. Ruth Rendell

   Author of Regent's Park, An Unkindness of Ravens, A Sleeping Life

8. Donald E. Westlake

   Author of Hot Rock, Kahawa, Cops and Robbers

9. Max Allan Collins

   Author of Two for the money, The Last Quarry, Deadly beloved

10. Elmore Leonard

    Author of Be Cool, Freaky Deaky, 52 Pick-Up

11. Ngaio Marsh

    Author of Vintage Murder, Hand in Glove, Final Curtain
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12. Kenneth Millar

    Author of The Goodbye Look, The Doomsters, The Name is Archer

13. Michael Connelly

    Author of The Narrows, Lost Light, Chasing the Dime

14. Ellery Queen

    Author of Calamity Town, The King is Dead, The Finishing Stroke

15. Maj Sjöwall

    Author of Roseanna, The Laughing Policeman, The Locked Room
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16. Robert Crais

    Author of L.A. Requiem, Indigo Slam, Hostage

17. David Dodge

    Author of Plunder of the sun, The Last Match

18. Jonathan Kellerman

    Author of Self-Defense, Billy Straight, The Butcher's Theater

19. Erle Stanley Gardner

    Author of Top of the Heap, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

20. Ken Bruen

    Author of The Guards, Bust, Slide