Mystery and Detective Fiction Recomendations

>>8456251
In the Cafe of Lost Youth, Missing Person, After the Circus

the deadly percheron

Raymond Chandler is great, pretty much the defining noir writer (start with the Big Sleep) and you should get hold of some Dashiell Hammett too. The Maltese Falcon is proto-Chandler in form, atmosphere and tone, and Red Harvest is his best IMHO.

Philip Karr writes great noir

Derek Raymond "The Factory" series

>>8456251
Start with Chandler and Hammett as >>8456499 recommends. They're the main seminal mystery writers that many others still continue to rip off. After that, read The Chill by Ross Macdonald, and The Wrong Case and The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley - they're a couple of the best writers that followed in the Hammett/Chandler tradition.

If you're after mysteries that are more soft-boiled, try Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books. If you want to try something more hard-boiled, try James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. If you're into something weirder, try >>8456264 - John Franklin Bardin's best-known book. For something more 'literary' but using a mystery framework, Patrick Modiano (recommended here >>8456262) is good.

There's also a lot of other crime fiction outside of the mystery subgenre, focused on the criminals themselves. For this subgenre, start with James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, which are the progenitors of many books that followed.