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James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) [2] [3] [4] was an American author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays.
Crumley may refer to: Bob Crumley (1876–1949), Scottish professional footballer; James Crumley (1939–2008), American author; James Crumley (footballer) (1890–1981), Scottish footballer; Jim Crumley (Scottish author) (born 1947), Scottish journalist; Patrick Crumley (1860–1922), Irish Nationalist UK Member of the Parliament
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled.Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
Most authors of whodunits, in which the puzzle-solving aspect predominates, are named exclusively as writers in the more specific subcategory of "mystery." Authors of crime fiction in which investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather , The Postman Always Rings Twice ) are named in the "crime fiction" category, but not as ...
McDonald's Lassiter series uses historical crimes and personages, including several appearances by Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles.. The voice and style of the Lassiter novels have drawn comparisons to James Crumley and James Ellroy, [1] both of whom McDonald interviewed as a journalist and whom he has confirmed in interviews and essays as significant influences.
P.D. James and Peter Lovesey win a record three Silver Daggers. James also won the most Silver Daggers as the author who never won a Gold Dagger. Colin Dexter is the only writer to win both two Silver and two Gold Daggers. Ruth Rendell has won the Gold Dagger a record four times. She is also the only one to win the award under different names.
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Max Fleming Crawford (August 6, 1938 – October 7, 2010) was an American writer. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, and grew up in Floydada, Texas.Crawford was influenced by Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry.