Here is a super quick list:
Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Richard Stark, Donald Westlake, Harry Whittington, John D. MacDonald, Margaret Millar, Hank Janson, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Lester Dent, Maxwell Grant, Megan Abbott, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Max Brand, George Gillman, Donald Hamilton, Edward Bunker, and Bret Halliday