The Picador Book of Crime Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Paul Auster, Elmore Leonard, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Émile Zola, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, G.K. Chesterton, Raymond Chandler, Isaac Bashevis Singer, James M. Cain, T.S. Eliot, Umberto Eco, P.D. James, James Thurber, Andre Dubus, Hunter S. Thompson, Julian Symons, Georges Simenon, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, W.H. Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Edmund Wilson, Simon Armitage, Francis King, Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall, Antonio Gramsci, Ira Levin, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael Dibdin, Thomas de Quincey, Joseph Wood Krutch, James McClure, Lloyd Osbourne, Alex Abella, Charles Rycroft, John Heath-Stubbs, T.A. Critchley, Harrison R. Steeves, Margaret Cole, G.F. Newman, Norman Shrapnel, Philip Van Doren Stren, Allen Pryce-Jones, Pierre Weisz, Haerold Nicholson, G.D.H. Cole