Noir and Hard Boiled

James Ellroy's early stuff, up to about LA Confidential.
I think around White Jazz he got it into his head that sentence fragments was a style.

Alex Casey is pretty good. He's literally Max Payne in a different name and medium.

>>7671946
Not sure if youd call it noir as such but Norman Mailer's American Dream includes society's seedy underbelly, murder and fascination with a moll / dame type character.

I enjoyed it.

>>7671946
An anon recommended me James Crumley a while ago, namely The Last Good Kiss. I enjoyed it a lot, it's said to be a mix of Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson if you can imagine that. The protagonist is just as witty as Marlowe, but a lot more violent and merciless, also drunk mostly througout the novel.

>>7671946
"Cocaine Nights" by Ballard.

>>7672100
I wouldnt say its noir but its a rad book nonetheless. I kinda felt Fight Club robbed it of its anarchic praise.

dashiell hammett - red harvest is the best hard boiled i've read imo

>>7673391
You know a crime novel's going well when it has a chapter called "The Seventeenth Murder".

Andrew Vachss does it well.

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>>7671946

Drive by James Sallis. The book the movie was based on.

Quick read, but very well written.