List of 15 authors like Ross Macdonald

  1. Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe)
  2. Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
  3. John D. MacDonald – The Deep Blue Good-by (Travis McGee)
  4. Elmore Leonard – Get Shorty (Chili Palmer)
  5. Michael Connelly – The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)
  6. James M. Cain – Double Indemnity (Walter Huff)
  7. Sara Paretsky – Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski)
  8. Patricia Highsmith – Strangers on a Train
  9. Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins)
  10. David Goodis – Dark Passage (Vincent Parry)
  11. Lawrence Block – Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder)
  12. Jonathan Latimer – Solomon’s Vineyard (Karl Craven)
  13. Ed McBain – Cop Hater (87th Precinct series)
  14. Robert B. Parker – The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser)
  15. Denise Mina – Garnethill (Maureen O’Donnell)