I'm looking for detective / noir novels that are actual

Never read them personally but I've always heard good things about Raymond Chandler.

the long dark tea-time of the soul by douglas adams

>>9479900
>Never read them personally but
>recommends someone anyway

>>9479909
>good detective/noir fiction
>douglas adams

This, right here, this is the kind of nonsense that drives people to make this place a cesspool to keep out the riffraff
OP, look into Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi, a collaboration between Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares

>>9479847
I've only read one Maigret but it was surprisingly good. Very "comfy", if that means anything to you.

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This god amongst men.

People will tell you good things about Dashiel Hammett. They are wrong. Nobody else is in Chandler's league. What Patrick O'Brian is to historical fiction, Chandler is to hard boiled.

Thanks for the recommendations. I don't usually read fiction, and most of the novels from this genre I read were Norwegian, or Stephen King crap.

>>9481162
This. And if you want to read it in physical form in an enjoyable format then look at the Chandler box of the Library of America.

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>>9479847

>>9479847
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga's stuff is pretty great.

>>9479847
detective/noir is bad to begin with so idk what you're expecting

>>9479847
The Thin Man

>>9481162
Chandler's awesome, but Hammett is awesome in a different way. Hammett is great at tight, fast-moving plots and Machiavellian characters. Red Harvest is a masterpiece. Chandler, on the other hand, is great at atmosphere, evocativeness, and a sort of sentimental beauty.

>>9479847
IDFK
you kinda have to be into that sorta thing I think

phillip marlowe
dresden tales
inherent vice by pynchon

>>9483181

fuck off edgelord

>>9483181
>Inherent Vice
>bad

>>9483447

horrible recommendations. not horrible books, but seriously why not let someone answer with more knowledge in the genre?

Mario Puzo

>>9485045
...b-but dresden files anon