--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Zeltserman"
<dz@...> wrote:
>
> I need something to distract me from my current book
(at that point
> where it's a bit like pulling teeth--will get better
after pushing
> through another 50 pages or so). People here want to
email me their
> top 25 crime fiction writers by midnight next
Thursday, I'll tally it
> up using MVP-type voting (1st place votes get 25
points, 2nd place 24
> points, etc.), and I'll post the top 50 results
here.
>
Here is mine (I put a premium on originality and I'm picking
hardboiled and noir) as of today:
Raymond Chandler Dashiell Hammett Charles Willeford Donald
Westlake Ross Thomas
Elmore Leonard Chester Himes Georges Simenon James Cain
Nathanael West
Jim Thompson Cornell Woolrich Jason Starr David Goodis Gil
Brewer
Lawrence Block James Ellroy Newton Thornburg Michael Connelly
Walter Mosley
Patricia Highsmith James Sallis K.C. Constantine William
Campbell Gault Ross Macdonald
Best,
mrt
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