Dave Forsmark, a Michigan-based book reviewer with excellent critical judgment on popular fiction, has reeled off three emails about that crime-thriller list in the Telegraph:

No John D. freaking OR Ross MacDonald? They inspired half the list. That’s a joke on a list that includes James Grady, who shouldn’t make a top 500, or Carl Hiaasen who has now written as many bad books as good. Way too many obscurer Brits. T. Jefferson Parker and Jonathan Kellerman have proven over time, but at least I’m glad to see Crais. Dennis Lehane is also far more accomplished than many on the list, but the lack of a MacDonald– or Connelly– as you point out would be like leaving John Wayne and Bogart off a list of great movie stars.

And:

NO WAMBAUGH. this list isn’t even a professional attempt.

Finally:

a Brit list that include Dan Kavanaugh and Jonathan Latimer, but NOT DICK FRANCIS? the more you look at it, the stranger it gets. Of course, Francis is a notorious Tory, and Travis McGee was a fervent anti-communist and free marketeer so there could be a poltical bias.