The Times's "50 Greatest Crime Writers"

I prefer this list to the one in The Telegraph a while back. Links on the author's name take you to the Times's page about the author (which gives a suggestion as to which book to try); bibliographies are linked to their Euro Crime page:

1. Patricia Highsmith

2. Georges Simenon - Bibliography

3. Agatha Christie - Bibliography

4. Raymond Chandler

5. Elmore Leonard

6. Arthur Conan Doyle - Bibliography

7. Ed McBain

8. James M. Cain

9. Ian Rankin - Bibliography

10. James Lee Burke

11. Dennis Lehane

12. P.D. James - Bibliography

13. Dashiell Hammett

14. Jim Thompson

15. Sjowall and Wahloo - Bibliography

16. John Dickson Carr

17. Cornell Woolrich

18. Ruth Rendell - Bibliography

19. Ross Macdonald

20. James Ellroy

21. Charles Willeford

22. Dorothy Sayers - Bibliography

23. John Harvey - Bibliography

24. Wilkie Collins

25. Francis Iles

26. Manuel Vasquez Montalban - Bibliography

27. Karin Fossum - Bibliography

28. Val McDermid - Bibliography

29. Edgar Allan Poe

30. Derek Raymond

31. George Pelecanos

32. Margery Allingham - Bibliography

33. Minette Walters - Bibliography

34. Carl Hiaasen

35. Walter Mosley

36. Reginald Hill - Bibliography

37. Michael Dibdin - Bibliography

38. Patricia Cornwell

39. Scott Turow

40. Dick Francis - Bibliography

41. Edmund Crispin

42. Alexander McCall Smith - Bibliography

43. Andrea Camilleri - Bibliography

44. Harlan Coben

45. Donna Leon

46. Josephine Tey - Bibliography

47. Colin Dexter - Bibliography

48. Nicholas Blake

49. Henning Mankell - Bibliography

50. Sara Paretsky

Check out a few responses to the Times article on Crime Scraps, Petrona and Mysteries in Paradise.

I've only sampled a measly 21 of these authors (and 20 off The Telegraph selection). I'm very surprised double Dagger winner Vargas isn't on the list.