Like a Shot

                 Pelecanos's books get into your blood like a shot and a beer after a third shift.

Pete Farrelly

Just the Same

     The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase ; in the end, you chase it just the same.

Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go
George Pelecanos
1995

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #55

Strangers on a Train

The Deuce

Death of a Cyclist

Yakuza

Thieves Highway

Vertigo

House of Games

The Killers (1946)

House of Bamboo

Knife in the Water

Chinatown

Told It True

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

George Pelecanos

Underrated Lost Classics #7

Dick Contino's Blues  James Ellroy
Long White Con  Iceberg Slim
The Big Blowdown  George Pelecanos
I Was Dora Suarez  Derek Raymond
Chump Change  Dan Fante
Green River Rising  Tim Willocks

This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own  Jonathan Rendall
But Beautiful  Geoff Dyer
The Name of the Game is Death  Dan J. Marlowe
The Thief  Fuminori Nakamura
Long Cold Fall  Sam Reeves

A Drop of the Hard Stuff  Lawrence Block
The Narrowback  Michael S Ledwidge
You Can't Win  Jack Black
March Violets  Phillip Kerr
The Big Enchilada  L.A Morse
Cincinnati Kid  Richard Jessup

Underrated Lost Classics #5

Falling Angel  William Hjortsberg

The Convict & other stories  James Lee Burke

Lost Weekend  Charles Jackson

Grave Error  Stephen Greenleaf

The Killing Floor  Arthur Lyons  

The Big Blowdown  George Pelecanos
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes  Lawrence Block
Tapping the Source  Kem Nunn
Night Train : The Sonny Liston Story  Nick Tosches
Mooch  Dan Fante

Under Cover of Daylight  James W. Hall
The Papers of Tony Veitch  William McIlvanney
The Big Con  David W. Maurer
The Devil's Home on Leave  Derek Raymond
I Married a Dead Man  Cornell Woolrich

The Deuce

The Deuce
David Simon, George Pelecanos
HBO - 2017

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

Just the Same

           The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase. In the end you chase it just the same.

George Pelecanos
Down By the River
1995

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Jack Delano

Least You Can Do

''You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man''. Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.

George Pelecanos

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go

1995

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Rob Moran

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

More Men Than Women

          Roland Williams sat on a stool at the stainless steel bar of Soul House, his regular place on 14th. There were few patrons here but this was not unusual. It was a dark barewall place that served more men than women, and hardly ever did so in great numbers. It was not frequented by the hip crowd but rather by city dwellers who liked their alcohol and conversation drama free. The jukebox played cuts by the likes of Big Maybelle, Carl 'soul dog' Marshall. Johnny Adams and other artists whose sound had that below-the-Mason-Dixon-line vibe.

What It Was
George Pelecanos
2012

What It Was

           The door opened. Odum, wearing plaid pants and a silk shirt, open to expose a ladder of chest bones, stood a few steps back from the frame. The black stacks on his feet elevated him but somehow managed to make him look smaller. He was the size of Sammy Davis Jnr. but lacked his talent.

George Pelecanos
What It Was
2012

The Rules of Film Noir

               A BBC docum on Noir featuring the likes of Pelecanos, Schrader, and Roger Deakins.

Layers of Society

Ghost of the Detective #4

Farewell My Lovely

French Connection II

Vertigo

Jennifer 8

Night Moves

Devil in a Blue Dress

The Pledge

                  ' Ohls showed the motor-cycle officer his badge and we went out onto the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented'

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
1939

The Missing Person

Chinatown

Le Cercle Rouge