Recommend me some good old detective novels /lit/…

inb4 Dostoyevsky

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Anything by Dashiell Hammett.

As a matter of fact there's a solid writer who isn't a lit meme yet.

>>8837321
>As a matter of fact there's a solid writer who isn't a lit meme yet.
Who's it?

>>8837649
Answer me! >>8837649

The Name of the Rose

Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers
>>8837321
he's def underrated on /lit/. he's pretty much all of the private eye genre

odd ball and more modern choice:
Dreaming of Babylon by Brautigan

>>8837649
Dashiell Hammet. Some communist former PI who wrote hardboiled crime fiction.

Pretty comfy.

Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
Poe's Detective stories
Chester Himes - A rage in Harlem
Borges' detective stories - which were explicitly doubling poe's work
Maj sjowall and per wahloo - the laughing policeman
Pynchon's the crying of lot 49 is a mystery/detective novel in some sense
PD James - an unsuitable job for a woman
raymond chandler - the big sleep
joseph conrad - the secret agent

>>8837321
>posting a picture of william faulkner

http://postmodernmystery.com/index.html

Carlo Emilio Gadda - That awful mess of the Via Merulana