AUTHORS
In the far right column you will find links to the major authors covered by Detnovel.com.
This site focuses on the American school of hard-boiled fiction, so not every detective author, or even every American author, is treated. It is hard to keep up, but new authors such as Michael Connelly and Kem Nunn are constantly being added. Their links are below.
New additions:
Michael Connelly
Lucha Corpi
Denise Hamilton
Gar Anthony Haywood
Stuart Kaminsky
Faye Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Rochelle Majer-Krich
Michael Nava
Kem Nunn
T. Jefferson Parker
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Topics & Titles
- African-American detective novel
- The Big Sleep (novel) (film)
- Black Mask magazine
- Humphrey Bogart
- Comics, Radio & TV
- Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel)
- the detective code
- Double Indemnity (novel) (film)
- evolution of genre
- Farewell, My Lovely (novel) (film)
- early female authors
- femme fatale
- film noir
- The Galton Case
- GermanExpressionism
- The Glass Key (novel)
- High Sierra (film)
- hero/ heroines
- imagery
- The Long Goodbye
- Maltese Falcon (novel) (film)
- Memento
- Mildred Pierce (film)
- Postman Always Rings Twice (novel) (film)
- The Public Enemy
- Red Harvest
- The Underground Man
- The Usual Suspects
Authors
- W. R. Burnett
- James M. Cain
- Paul Cain
- Raymond Chandler
- Michael Connelly
- Lucha Corpi
- James Ellroy
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Sue Grafton
- Anna Katharine Green
- Denise Hamilton
- Dashiell Hammett
- Gar Anthon Haywood
- George V. Higgins
- Chester Himes
- Stuart Kaminsky
- Faye Kellerman
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Elmore Leonard
- Ross Macdonald
- Rochelle Majer Krich
- Horace McCoy
- Walter Mosley
- Michael Nava
- Frederick Lewis Nebel
- Kem Nunn
- W.Oursler/M. Scott
- Sarah Paretsky
- Robert B. Parker
- T. Jefferson Parker
- Allen Pinkerton
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Mickey Spillane
- Jim Thompson
- Francois Vidocq
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Raoul Whitfield
- Cornell Woolrich