What are some of your favorite hardboiled/detective/crime works?

>>9959627
also from Ellroy The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential, Brown's Requiem, Killer on the Road

I also like James Crumley. Dancing Bear and The Last Good Kiss

True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne was another original twist on the Black Dahlia murder that Ellroy wrote about.

The Burnt Orange Heresy by Willieford was good too.

From the older guys, Chandler, Hammet and Ross MacDonald were all pretty solid.

I'm a big film noir fan but never really gotten into the book side. I've only read The Thin Man which was much better than the film, though I see it hard to match the level of seriousness and humour.

>>9959627
Haven't read The Big Nowhere yet but Ellroy is great and I have heard it's one of his best.

>>9960641
Try Ellroy. Either Black Dahlia/LA Confidential or American Tabloid.

>>9959627
Dashiell Hammett's The Red Harvest is fantastic.

>>9961790
>The Red Harvest
>Akira Kurosawa scholar David Desser and critic Manny Farber, among others, state that Red Harvest was the inspiration for Kurosawa's film Yojimbo.

Awesome, i'm in.

>>9962897
>>9961790
Pretty sure Pynchon is a big fan of Red Harvest.