From Agatha Christie to Val Mc Dermid, here are the ten authors of crime novels preferred by cybernauts according to the site “shareranks”
MILAN – Intrigues, crimes, murders. And still cases to solve and witty investigators. The thriller is certainly one of the literary genres that most passionate book lovers, interpreted in the last two centuries by undisputed masters who have contributed to giving the detective novel a great luster. The site ” shareranks “, the site that aggregates the preferences expressed online by cybernauts, has compiled the ranking of the most popular crime writers in the world , which we propose here. THE QUEEN OF YELLOW – Agatha Christiethe queen of crime writers was unanimously crowned. From her pen, personalities known to the general public were born, from the Belgian commissioner Hercule Poirot to the acute inquisitive Miss Marple. She has always curated her novels with great skill, creating an intriguing atmosphere through easily recognizable characters and settings: accurate descriptions, a sense of suspense and synthesis, detailed realistic settings, characters never lacking in depth or characterization. She is the most translated English author in the world, even more so than Shakespeare. THE PODIUM – In second place, of course, we find the creator of the most famous and cited detective in the history of literature. We are talking about Sherlock Holmes’ father, Arthur Conan Doyle, considered together with Edgar Allan Poe the progenitor of the yellow and in particular of the deductive yellow, which his character interprets in a sublime way. A curiosity: the phrase “Elementary, Watson!”, Which everyone associates with Holmes, was actually attributed to him later. In the books Holmes pronounces it only once. Just the already named Edgar Allan Poe , universally known for being the inventor of the detective story and the so-called “psychological mystery”, appears on the third step of the podium. “The crimes of the rue Morgue”, in particular, is considered the first detective story in history. In it appears for the first time the character of the criminal detective Auguste Dupin, forerunner of those “deductive” investigators who will have the most famous representative in Sherlock Holmes.THE REST OF THE RANKING – After another English-speaking author, the American Dashiell Hammett , also much appreciated by the noir writer Raymond Chandler for his ability to give credibility to the crime by thoroughly investigating the motive, and the turn of the Russian writer Boris Akunin . It is from his pen that the character of Erast Petrovic Fandorin was born, the investigator who has come to sell 4 million copies and be translated all over the world. In sixth position we find the American James Ellroy , known above all for the “Tetralogy of Losa Angeles”, which includes “Black Dahlia”, “The Big Nothing”, “LA Confidential” and “White Jazz”. Behind him another American, Michael Connelly. Most of his books are about the investigations of a Los Angeles Police Department detective, Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch: his name is the same as that of the famous Dutch painter, from whom it is said that the detective’s mother was very fascinated. Eighth is Ian Rankin , “the undisputed king of Tartan Noir”, or of the Scottish mystery, according to James Ellroy, while in ninth position we find Raymond Chandler , American writer of pulp novels focused on the figure of the private detective Philip Marlowe. The British writer Val Mc Dermid closes the ranking , combining the tradition of Tartan Noir with attention to topical issues such as the death penalty, homosexuality and torture.
1.Agatha Christie
2. Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Dashiell Hammett
5. Boris Akunin
6. James Ellroy
7. Michael Connelly
8. Ian Rankin
9. Raymond Chandler
10. Val Mc Dermid22 settembre 2013
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