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Crime writers


  • Writers of crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction, drama, or narrative nonfiction.
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  • Variants

    • Detective writers
    • Mystery writers
    • Suspense writers
    • Thriller writers
    • True crime writers
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Lahlum, Hans Olav. Satellite people, 2015:unnum. prelim. p. (Hans Olav Lahlum is a Norwegian crime author, historian, chess player and politician)
    • found: If I tell you I'll have to kill you : Australia's top crime writers reveal their secrets, 2013.
    • found: Wanner, L. Dead sharp : Scottish crime writers on country and craft, ©2011(Interviews with contemporary Scottish crime writers)
    • found: Huke, D. The crime writer's handbook, 1997.
    • found: 100 American crime writers, 2012.
    • found: Ritt, B. Paperback confidential : crime writers of the paperback era, 2013.
    • found: Bailey, F.Y. African American mystery writers, ©2008.
    • found: Blakesley, E. Great women mystery writers, 2007.
    • found: British mystery and thriller writers since 1960, ©2003.
    • found: Legal briefs : stories by today's best legal thriller writers, 1999.
    • found: Classic crime and suspense writers, ©1995.
    • found: Modern crime and suspense writers, ©1995.
    • found: Mystery and suspense writers : the literature of crime, detection, and espionage, ©1998.
    • found: American mystery and detective writers, ©2005.
    • found: LCSH, June 13, 2017(Crime writing. UF Crime--Authorship; Writing, Crime. BT Authorship; also headings such as Aerospace writers, Food writers, Nature writers, Science writers, Travel writers, Wine writers)
    • found: Mystery Writers of America website, June 13, 2017:about MWA (Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. MWA is dedicated to promoting higher regard for crime writing and recognition and respect for those who write within the genre; writers of books, short stories, plays, and screenplays)
    • found: Crime Writers of Canada website, June 13, 2017:about us (We are the national professional association for mystery and crime writers in Canada; Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is a national non-profit organization for Canadian mystery and crime writers, associated professionals, and others with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing; the field of Crime Writing is a broad category that includes crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller writing, as well as fictional or factual accounts of criminal doings and crime-themed literary works. Cross-over tales such as romantic suspense and speculative thrillers are also considered part of the genre. In broader terms, it includes any work of fact or fiction that features crime or mystery as a central element)
    • found: The Crime Writers' Association website, June 13, 2017:about us (open to writers of crime fiction or non-fiction resident in Great Britain; we have represented crime authors since 1953 and launched the careers of many writers; members of the CWA come from all areas of the genre and we have categorised them by sub-genre)
    • found: International Association of Crime Writers website, June 13, 2017:about us > A brief history (The Asociación Internacional de Escritores Policiacos (or International Association of Crime Writers) was founded in Havana in 1986; primary goal of AIEP has become to encourage crime writing as a genre and especially, through the efforts of the North American branch, to facilitate translations of works from other languages into English toward possible publication in the United States)
    • found: International Association of Crime Writers North American Branch website, June 13, 2017:Hammett Prize (IACW/NA awards The Hammett Prize annually for literary excellence in the field of crime-writing; "Crime-writing" is defined as any published work of adult fiction or narrative nonfiction that encompasses such areas as "crime," "suspense," "thriller," "mystery," or "espionage" as those terms are normally understood in the writing and publishing fields)
    • found: 50 crime writers to read before you die, via The telegraph, 23 Feb 2008, viewed online June 13, 2017(our list of the 50 great crime writers of all time; authors listed include: GK Chesterton; Arthur Conan Doyle; Dashiell Hammett; Georges Simenon; Agatha Christie; Ngaio Marsh; Raymond Chandler; Patricia Highsmith; Steig Larsson; Dorothy L. Sayers; Mickey Spillane; Elmore Leonard)
    • found: Crime writers on ... website, June 13, 2017:home page (We're true crime authors) The crime writers > Rebecca & Kevin (We are true crime writers)
  • General Notes

    • Writers of crime, detective, espionage, mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction, drama, or narrative nonfiction.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-06-13: new
    • 2022-01-31: revised
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