Noir
>Raymond Chandler
>Jim Thompson
>Dashiell Hammett
>James M. Cain
>Patricia Highsmith
Neo-noir:
>James Ellroy
>Craig Clevenger
>Donald Ray Pollock
is it pronounced noyer or nwah
>>8959928
More like nwarr, but you don't say n-warr. It's kind of like the the nar in narwhal but you put a w sound before the n.
>>8959928
"No 'R'"
>>8960483
Meant to say w after the n, not before.
OP those authors works are called Hard Boiled
Noir is the film equivalent, and noir doesn't necessarily involve detectives