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Criminals
Kenneth Abel
  • Danny Chaisson: former ADA, now bagman for crocked state senator in New Orleans, Louisiana

Eric Ambler
  • Arthur Abdel Simpson: comic rogue and petty crook in England

Rosemary Aubert
  • Ellis Portal: former lawyer and judge convicted of a crime in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lawrence Block
  • Bernie Rhodenbarr: burglar and bookseller, in New York City
  • John Keller: hit-man in New York City

Simon Brett
  • Melita Pargeter: widow of a thief in England

Tony Broadbent
  • Jethro: cat burglar recruited by MI5, in post-WWII London, England

Austin S. Camacho
  • Felicity O’Brian: Irish jewel thief, and Morgan Stark, a black mercenary soldier

Leslie Charteris
  • Simon “The Saint” Templar: international thief, millionaire, and master of disguise
  • Series continued by Burl Barer

Jerome Charyn
  • Sidney Holden: hit-man in New York City

Brian Cleeve
  • Sean Ryan: ex-Irish revolutionary, recruited from prison to infiltrate groups whose plans threaten the security of England

Martina Cole
  • Patrick Kelly who has underworld connections, and Kate Burrows, a detective inspector, in the East End of London, England
  • Maura Ryan: who joins the family “firm” and becomes the young queen of the criminal underworld, in the East End of London, England

Max Allan Collins
  • Nolan: aging thief in Iowa
  • Quarry: psychotic Vietnam vet and hired killer in Iowa

Stephen Coonts
  • Tommy Carmellini: ex-burglar and CIA operative

John Creasey
  • The Toff: high-living, villain-hating, law-bending Honorable Richard Rollison
Richard Doetsch
  • Michael St. Pierre: master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe

Barry Eisler
  • John Rain: freelance assassin in Tokyo, Japan

Loren D. Estleman
  • Peter Macklin: hit man for the mob in Detroit, Michigan

Mary Anna Evans
  • Faye Longchamp: black archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market on her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast

E.X. Ferrars
  • Felix Freer: thief, and Virginia Freer, a physiotherapist, in London, England

Robert L. Fish
  • Kek Huuygens: Polish smuggler using a Dutch name and an American passport in Europe

Alan Furst
  • Roger Levin: 1970s marijuana dealer and shrewd operator who does for others what they would prefer not to do themselves

John Gardner
  • Professor Moriarty: archenemy of Sherlock Holmes in London, England

Brian Garfield
  • Paul Benjamin: vigilante murderer in Arizona

Jonathan Gash
  • Lovejoy: antiques expert and forger in East Anglia, England

Roberta Gellis
  • Magdalene la Batarde: whorehouse madame in 12th-century London, England

Bruce Graeme
  • Richard Verrell: known as Blackshirt, a self-educated founding who becomes a respected mystery author, and burgles for the fun of it, in England
  • Series continued by Roderic Graeme (Roderic Jeffries)

Lesley Grant-Adamson
  • Jim Rush: American on the run from British police in England

Sarah Graves
  • Jacobia Triptree: onetime financial advisor to the Mob, now living in Eastport, Maine, in the Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries

Thomas Harris
  • Hannibal Lecter: serial killer in North America

Chris Haslam
  • Martin Brock: stoned-out small-time drug dealer who fled Britain

Patricia Highsmith
  • Tom Ripley: charming forger and psychopath in England

Edward D. Hoch
  • Nick Velvet: thief who steals only valueless things

Selwyn Jepson
  • Eve Gill: young sleuth frequently dealing with problems caused by her liquor-smuggling father, in England

Bett Reece Johnson
  • Cordelia Morgan: lesbian hit artist turned sleuth, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado
Marne Davis Kellogg
  • Kick Keswick: master jewel thief who worked for an auction house in London, England for 30 years, now retired to Provence, France

Janice Law
  • Anna Peters: reformed blackmailer and oil company researcher turned security expert, in Connecticut

Hailey Lind
  • Annie Kincaid: reformed art forger now in the faux finishing business, in the Art Lover’s mysteries

Jeff Lindsay
  • Dexter Morgan: blood spatter technician for Miami Dade Police Department, and sociopathic serial killer in Florida

Anthony Morton (John Creasey)
  • The Baron: John Mannering, ex-jewel thief and antiques dealer

Walter Mosley
  • Socrates Fortlow: philosophical ex-con in California
Frank Parrish (Roger Erskine Longrigg)
  • Don Mallett: thief and poacher, in Medwell Fratorum, England

Eliot Pattison
  • Duncan McCallum: Scottish prisoner transported to Colonial America

Ritchie Perry
  • Philis: Brazilian smuggler turned British intelligence agent in Brazil

Thomas Perry
  • An anonymous hit-man in England

Gary Phillips
  • Martha Chainey: courier for the corporate mob in Las Vegas, Nevada

Mario Puzo
  • Godfather and Mafia series

Robert Reeves (born 1912)
  • Cellini Smith: accountant for the Mob in New York City, turned honest private investigator in Los Angeles, California

Sax Rohmer
  • Fu Manchu: pursuer of world dominance
  • Sumuru: master plotter working towards world dominance

William Sanders
  • Taggart Roper: freelance writer, living in a trailer with his dog, and moonlighting as a petty criminal, in Oklahoma

John Sandford
  • LuEllen: a thief, and Kidd, a computer whiz, in Minneapolis, Minnesot

Barbara Seranella
  • Munch Mancini: ex-druggie and jailbird in 1970s Los Angeles, California

Simon Shaw
  • Philip Fletcher: British thespian and killer in London, England

Evelyn E. Smith
  • Susan Melville: spinster art teacher and painter who becomes a freelance assassin, in New York City

Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)
  • Alan Grofield: actor and part-time bank robber, in New York City
  • Parker: cold-blooded professional thief in New York City

Will Thomas
  • Thomas Llewelyn: ex-student and ex-thief, now assistant to Cyrus Barker, a private detective, in Victorian London, England

J.F. Trainor
  • Peter Benington: retired jewel thief, and Benny Ashe, a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida, in the Old Gang of Mine series

Andrew H. Vachss
  • Burke: outlaw soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City

Jess Walter
  • Vince Camden: member of the witness-protection program, manager of a donut shop by day, and a gambler and thief by night, in Spokane, Washingto

Richard F. West
  • Peter Benington: retired jewel thief, and Benny Ashe, a retired Mob boss, in Coral Sands, Florida, in the Old Gang of Mine series

Donald E. Westlake
  • John Dortmunder: criminal master planner in New York City

Don Winslow
  • Neal Carey: youthful pickpocket turned private investigator, in New York City

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