I'll hazard a top nine (limiting myself to only one by each
of Hammet
and Chandler), admitting them some titles are off-genre or
stretching
it. (My list perhaps also reveals that I am not as well read
in the
genre as I would like to be.)
Maltese Falcon
Long Goodbye
Woman Chaser (The Director), Willeford
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up, Eric Knight writing
as Richard
Hallas--no one has talked at all about this book, though it
did appear
on James Rogers' list
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Horace McCoy
Halo for Satan, Howard Browne writing as John Evans
Homicide Sanitarium (stories), Fredric Brown
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
Edgar Huntly, Charles Brockden Brown (an early (1799)
American novel of
detection, with much darkness, madness, noirish (i.e.,
gothic) setting,
etc.--Poe stole a lot of his schtick from CB Brown)
Doug
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