What are your essential noir and or detective fiction novels?
What are your essential noir and or detective fiction novels?
Nolan Thomas
Matthew Gutierrez
All the Philip Marlowe books.
Parker Carter
Jim Thompson's the killer inside me
Kevin Cox
Read Chandler and Paul Cain’s “Fast One”
Joshua Myers
Everything by Dashiell Hammett,Raymond Chandler,Jim Thompson and Donald E. Westlake
Christopher King
I would do this first and then read Ross Macdonald:
>The Chill
>The Instant Enemy
>Black Money
>The Far Side of the Dollar
and also his short stories are great
Also, I wouldn't consider him essential, but I really like James Crumley's books, especially The Wrong Case and Dancing Bear
Colton Cook
I'd recommend getting an anthology and figuring out which writers you like from there.
Cornell Woolrich is particularly delightful
Luke Cook
Landon Lewis
LA Confidential
The Burnt Orange Heresy
After Dark My Sweet
Evan Rodriguez
Mickey Spillane’s “Mike Hammer” books are fun reads. Manly men and womanly women. And alcohol.
Isaac James
>Vachss
Christopher Flores
this novel was pretty lame
Luke Wright
I disagree. I thought it was dark, brooding and exciting.
Michael Nguyen
>pretty lame
How so?
Dylan Johnson
to each their own. although i agree it was dark and brooding, it didn't evoke the pulp fiction vibe that I was expecting
Carson Rodriguez
I never expected it to read like pulp fiction myself. It has plenty of suggestion but never attempts actual illustration of pulp elements.
>What made you expect it to be pulp fiction rather than detective or noir?
Robert Richardson
one of my most prized Yea Forums items is an old dell mapback edition of Nightmare Town. Good little story
Liam Sanders
Honestly I think the genre reached its peak with Hammett's "Thin Man" which was essentially a detective story that was spoofing itself as it went along. Some of the best hard-boiled prose of all time in that book. First line is a classic:
>I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over to me. She was small and blonde, and whether you looked at her face or at her body in powder-blue sports clothes the result was satisfactory.
Brandon Turner
Of all genre fiction, noir is the one that holds a higher standard toward style and prose, which I can respect. Chandler was a stellar stylist.
Chase Gonzalez
this post is one that holds a higher standard towards dubs and trips, which I can respect
Aiden Ortiz
Trips of truth
Austin Brown
i'd just seen in referenced in other works and got the impression it was a kind of pulpy detective novel. that being said, do you have any pulp fiction to recc?
John Rivera
Just finished pic related two minutes ago and holy fuck. It starts off good if a bit slow, but 2nd half is incredible and the ending was brilliant, abrupt, crushing like a punch in the face
Daniel Scott
I have never encountered a better Noir writer than Simenon. He is completely in another league from Hammett and Chandler, though I enjoy those guys too. Patricia Highsmith is the only other one who I'd rate to be near Simenon. Would love to expand this list but it hasn't happened yet...