The Thrilling Detective Website gives this good sum-up of Dashiel Hammett's importance.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), perhaps the detective fiction writer who earned more respect in mainstream literature, also published his first stories in The Black Mask (then in The Dime Detective and in Detective Story Magazine). He acknowledged Dashiel Hammett's foresight of the crime genre (and hard-boiled fiction, potentially influencing Hemingway's "plain style") in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" (1950), with advice on creative writing in the genre: http://ae-lib.org.ua/texts-c/chandler__the_simple_art_of_murder__en.htm
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), a later cult author of the genre, also gave his rules for writing, digested here.
Another so-called "paraliterary genre" emerged not long after the Crime Novel, "science fiction", with its first pulp being Astounding Science Fiction (1930).
One of its early collaborators was the young Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), who would excel both in science and detective fiction. He wrote the classic Fahrenheit 451 where he would nonetheless satirize the tendency for minimal speech disseminated by mass market magazines and the media:
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