Phillip Marlowe - Raymond Chandler
Hoke Moseley - Charles Willeford
Lew Archer - Ross MacDonald
Sam Spade - Dashiell Hammett
Matt Scudder - Lawrence Block
Easy Rawlins - Walter Mosley
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones - Chester Himes
Mitch Tobin - Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake)
John Marshall Tanner - Stephen Greenleaf
Derek Strange - George Pelecanos
Harry Stoner - Jonathan Valin
let me add, one of my personal favorites, Burke - Andrew Vachss.
ReplyDeleteAnd he just has one large story, and a few shorts, but Jack Herrigan - Ed Brubaker / Michael Lark, is a great neo noir character.
Great suggestions ..... anyone else ?
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