Saturday, 19 May 2018

All Time 20 Hardboiled Writers


raymond Chandler
david Goodis
charles Willeford
jim Thompson
dashiell Hammett
james m Cain
cornell Woolrich
ross MacDonald
george v Higgins
james Lee Burke
james Ellroy
horace McCoy
patricia Highsmith
elmore Leonard
chester Himes
george Pelecanos
donald Westlake
lawrence Block
walter Mosley
james Crumley


Black Mask Dinner containing Chandler, Hammett & Horace McCoy....... Los Angeles 1936

http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/prose/things_are_not_as_they_seem.htm

3 comments:

  1. A great list I haven't read much of Goodis, none of Higgins or Burke one Pelecanos some of Westlake and Block. Got some catching up to do ;-)

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    1. These are all highly recommended Joe.......Goodis is archetypal Noir

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  2. Edward Bunker sends all these guys running home to mother.

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