who is the best mystery writer?
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I am quite favourable to a more "noir" feel to my crime novels which is why I love Dashiell Hammett (creator of Sam Spade) as well as Raymond Chandler (creator of Phillipe Marlowe). James Ellroy (LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia) is also a great prose writer. James Caan (The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity) was also a brilliant early crime writer.\n\nI have been told that Elmore Leonard and Lawrence Block are really excellent writers too, but I have not got down to reading their works as of yet.
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David West or Shane Battier. They have been my favorites.
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Annie Duke...\n1st lady of poker.\nread her book,\nit will blow your mind.\nher skill level is off the chart.\nher phsyc.level is "best of the best"\nwhy would you ever pick anyone else?
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My Agatha Christie books
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Englebert Humperdink.  \n\nIt's a fun name to say!
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Alan Moore.\nNeil Gaiman is good but Alan Moore takes it based on Watchmen alone.
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James Patterson, Sidney Sheldon, Harlan Corbet, Stuart Woods, Jonathan Kellerman, Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark,Robin Cook.  These are just a few.  Happy reading.
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Hannibal Lechter.\n\nSo courteous. So erudite :-))
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Dean Koontz is my favorite author.  First of all because he is absolutely spellbinding, I can't put his books down until I've finished them.  Also, a lot of times he writes about things that could happen.  And lastly because once I wrote to him and he responded with a very nice handwritten letter and an autographed picture which I have hanging on my wall, framed.  That tells me he is as great a man as he is a writer.
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Anything by Charles deLint.  He has books of short stories and full novels.
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boris is by far the best he is so funny\n\nmy hubby agrees i had to ring him at work to tell him!
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That is so hard to answer ... there are so many terrific books ... let's see ... one of the best I have read is Randon Passage by Bernice Morgan about a couple of fishing families on a remote island off Newfoundland in the 1800's - there is a CBC mini-series about it - excellent!  The worst would be any of the "fluff" popular mystery books by authors who churn them out almost a couple a year.
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Is there even any question about the answer....Stephen King of course
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Actually many authors do that. They write the end of the book or story and then work backwards. Most mystery books are written backwards.
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an author.  more specifically a novel writer.
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Dr. No.\n\nBy far the best.
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn-- he's my favorite.\nTitian, Claude Monet, Pieter Aertsen, Alessandro Algardi, Sir Anthony van Dyck, etc. \n\nFor a large list: