Sorry, Dave Z. My ranking will mess up your list so you can
ignore it. I went High Fidelity on you and arranged my top-25
autobiographically.
It's cool to see how a paperback copy of Thomas Cook's
Evidence of Blood got me to read American Tabloid and from
there the rest is history.
Thomas H. Cook Richard Price Robert B. Parker Walter Mosley
James Ellroy Cormac McCarthy Michael Connelly Raymond
Chandler Lawrence Block George Pelecanos Elmore Leonard
Dennis Lehane James Crumley Dashiell Hammett Charles
Willeford Daniel Woodrell Jean-Patrick Manchette John
Williams James Sallis Val McDermid Ken Bruen Loren D.
Estleman Don Winslow Duane Swierczynski Charles McCarry
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