The Shamus Winners

Benjamin M. Schutz is a crime writer best known for his series featuring private investigator Leo Haggerty. He edited the anthology The Shamus Winners and won several major awards for his hardboiled detective fiction. His

Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s.

American writer and short fiction anthologist.

John Lutz is the author of the crime novel The Sport of Crime. He's a writer who knows how to craft a good thriller.

American crime and mystery novelist, born June 24, 1938, in Buffalo, New York. Best known for the Matthew Scudder detective novels and the Bernie Rhodenbarr burglar series, he has also written the Evan Tanner and Keller series across a career spanning more than five decades. Named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994, and a four-time winner of both the Edgar and Shamus Awards.

Loren D. Estleman is a writer who knows his way around a good mystery. You might recognize his name from collections like Great Tales of Crime and Detection. He's a solid choice if you're looking for sharp crime stories.

Marcia Muller is the author of the popular Ethnic Detectives series, featuring a sharp private investigator. Her work is a great choice if you enjoy classic detective fiction with a strong sense of place.

Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the United States. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and...

Nancy Pickard is a mystery writer known for her Jenny Cain series, including the novel Unholy Orders. She also edits and contributes to various genre anthologies such as Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and the Malice Domestic collections. Her work covers a range of styles from traditional crime fiction to fantasy and horror.

He's been called astonishingly prolific. He's been called "the last of the great pulp writers." Robert J. Randisi has fought to ensure that P.I. fiction gets some respect, not just through his many splendid contributions to the genre in the form of his fictional eyes creations of Miles Jacoby, Henry Po, Nick Delvecchio or a host of others, as entertaining as they may be, but through his tireless promotion of the genre through his numerous non-fiction articles, his co-founding, with Ed Gorman,...