Sunday, 7 June 2020

All Time Noir Detectives


Phillip Marlowe   Raymond Chandler
Hoke Mosely   Charles Willeford
Continental Op   Dashiell Hammett
Lew Archer   Ross MacDonald
Dave Robicheaux   James Lee Burke


Matthew Scudder   Lawrence Block
Easy Rawlins    Walter Mosley
Mitch Tobin   Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake)
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones   Chester Himes


Detective Sergeant   Derek Raymond
Fritz Brown   James Ellroy
Cody   James Reasoner
Lew Griffin   James Sallis


runners - up
Maigret   Georges Simenon
Bernie Gunther  Phillip Kerr
The Eye   Marc Behm
Jacob Asch  Arthur Lyons
John Marshall Tanner  Stephen Greenleaf

Suggestions ?

2 comments:

  1. Nestor Burma - Leo Malet
    Jack Laidlaw - William McIlvanney
    Fabio Montale - Jean-Claude Izzo
    C.W. Sughrue, Milo Milodragovitch - James Crumley

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