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這份榜單是《Times》選的。

＊The 50 Greatest Crime Writers
1. Patricia Highsmith/Rule-breaking master of amorality
2. Georges Simenon/The Trojan horse of foreign crime-writing
3. Agatha Christie/The original Queen of Crime
4. Raymond Chandler/The most profound of pulp writers
5. Elmore Leonard/The Dickens of Detroit
6. Arthur Conan Doyle/Creator of the ultimate hero-and-sidekick team
7. Ed McBain/Thrilling writer of snap-and-crackle dialogue
8. James M. Cain/Godfather of Noir
9. Ian Rankin/Edinburgh's gritty crime laureate
10. James Lee Burke/American spinner of bleakly lyrical tales

11. Dennis Lehane/A tender craftsman with a tough centre
12. P.D. James/Prolific and cerebral grand dame of British crime
13. Dashiell Hammett/The man who dragged murder back into the alley
14. Jim Thompson/Revered creator of corrupt cops and sociopaths
15. Sjowall and Wahloo/The mother and father of Nordic crime
16. John Dickson Carr/King of the "locked room mystery"
17. Cornell Woolrich/Tortured pulp novelist known for Rear Window
18. Ruth Rendell/Criminal mastermind of unparalleled breadth and depth
19. Ross Macdonald/Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled heir
20. James Ellroy/The most literary of American crime writers
21. Charles Willeford/Aficianados' favourite who is ripe for a break-through
22. Dorothy Sayers/Lord Peter Wimsey's witty creator
23. John Harvey/The man behind the jazz-loving Nottingham cop Resnick
24. Wilkie Collins/Godfather of the detective novel
25. Francis Iles/Pseudonymous writer of radical plots
26. Manuel Vasquez Montalban/Intellectual gourmand whose fiction mapped Barcelona
27. Karin Fossum/Norway's foremost cold-climate crime writer
28. Val McDermid/Influential author of high-grade "Tartan Noir"
29. Edgar Allan Poe/Mould-setter for the modern sleuth
30. Derek Raymond/Hard-drinking, hard-writing British crime legend
31. George Pelecanos/Energetic, music-loving social crusader
32. Margery Allingham/Golden Age sophisticate who can chill or charm
33. Minette Walters/Unflinching chronicler of humankind's dark side
34. Carl Hiaasen/Rapid-fire satirist of Miami vices
35. Walter Mosley/A bold American voice, not afraid to tackle race
36. Reginald Hill/Playful creator of British favourites Dalziel and Pascoe
37. Michael Dibdin/Late, great ironist who investigated Italy's corruption
38. Patricia Cornwell/Shrewd pioneer of gruesome pathology
39. Scott Turow/Legal thriller-writer famous for Presumed Innocent
40. Dick Francis/Former jockey and king of equestrian intrigue
41. Edmund Crispin/Elegant and accomplished Oxford plotter
42. Alexander McCall Smith/Scottish Professor whose Mma Ramotswe has won hearts and minds
43 Andrea Camilleri/Italy's foremost crime export
44. Harlan Coben/Mature metroplitan stylist loved for his twisting plots
45. Donna Leon/American explorer of the Venetian underworld
46. Josephine Tey/Acute 1940s author whose books describe the danger of love
47. Colin Dexter/Former classics teacher who found fame with Morse
48. Nicholas Blake/C. Day Lewis' crime-writing foil
49. Henning Mankell/Swedish novelist with a bleak take of modern life
50. Sara Paretsky/Spirited creator of feminist sleuth VI Warshawski

＊Under the stewardship of Marcel Berlins, a team of writers and critics (including Val McDermid, Barry Forshaw and Natasha Cooper) have compiled a list of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers for The Times.

冬陽另做一份中文介紹，附有作家出版的中文譯品，請見：
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/epage/read.php?id=8934