Table of Contents
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
