Here's my take:
TOP 25 NOIR AND HARD-BOILED WRITERS
1. Hammett 2. Simenon 3. James M. Cain 4. Chester Himes 5.
Donald Westlake 6. Chandler 7. José ‡iovanni 8. George V.
Higgins 9. Elmore Leonard 10. Lawrence Block 11. Fredric
Brown 12. David Goodis 13. Jim Thompson 14. Daniel Woodrell
15. Wambaugh 16. Latimer 17. Kem Nunn 18. Lansdale 19. Vicki
Hendricks 20. Joe Gores 21. Jason Starr 22. Jon A. Jackson
23. Dan J. Marlowe 24. J-P Manchette 25. E. Richard
Johnson
Close but no cigar: Edward Bunker, James Reasoner, Arthur
Lyons, Stephen Greenleaf, and many others.
Tapani Bagge
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