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In the current issue of Empire we explore the dark, dirty world of the crime genre. But who are the people who inspired it all? Now we reveal the five writers who have had a bigger impact on the cinematic world of crime than anyone else since that first Great Train Robbery back in 1903...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The man who created Sherlock Holmes	Dashiell Hammett The man who set the hardboiled detective blueprint	Raymond Chandler The booze-sodden lord of noir	Patricia Highsmith The psycho-thriller doyenne	James Ellroy The chronicler of America's filthy underbelly

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