Sunday, 22 March 2015

All Time Detective Noir


Phillip Marlowe - Raymond Chandler
Hoke Moseley - Charles Willeford
Lew Archer - Ross MacDonald
Sam Spade - Dashiell Hammett
Matt Scudder - Lawrence Block


Dave Robicheaux - James Lee Burke
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

2 comments:

  1. let me add, one of my personal favorites, Burke - Andrew Vachss.
    And he just has one large story, and a few shorts, but Jack Herrigan - Ed Brubaker / Michael Lark, is a great neo noir character.

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  2. Great suggestions ..... anyone else ?

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