After attacking Allan's list I figure I better come up with
my own. Like Allan, I'll admit that the list is limited by
what I've actually read, which in turn is limited by
availability. The list is also weighted heavily toward some
of my favorite authors. This list contains American novels
only from the first 40 years of the genre. I could only come
up with 150 I thought worthy of a list.
Jeff
A. A. Fair - Top of the Heap A. S. Fleischman - Look Behind
You Lady A. S. Fleischman - The Venetian Blonde Charles
Willeford - High Priest of California Charles Willeford -
Pick-Up Charles Willeford - The Black Mass of Brother
Springer Charles Willeford - The Burnt Orange Hersey Charles
Willeford - The Cockfighter Charles Willeford - The Woman
Chaser Charles Willeford - Wild Wives Charles Willeford -
Deliver Me from Dallas (a.k.a, Whip Hand) Charles Williams -
A Touch of Death Charles Williams - All the Way Charles
Williams - Dead Calm Charles Williams - Girl Out Back Charles
Williams - Go Home, Stranger Charles Williams - Hell Hath No
Fury (a.k.a. The Hot Spot) Charles Williams - Nothing in Her
Way Charles Williams - River Girl Charles Williams - Talk of
the Town Charles Williams - The Big Bite Chester Himes - For
Love of Imabelle (a.k.a A Rage in Harlem) Chester Himes - The
Real Cool Killers Cornell Woolrich - I Married a Dead Man
Cornell Woolrich - Phantom Lady Cornell Woolrich - The Black
Angel Cornell Woolrich - The Black Curtain Cornell Woolrich -
The Bride Wore Black Cornell Woolrich - Fright Dashiell
Hammett - Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett - The
Maltese Falcon David Dodge - Plunder of the Sun David Goodis
- Black Friday David Goodis - Blonde on the Street Corner
David Goodis - Cassidy's Girl David Goodis - Dark Passage
David Goodis - Down There (a.k.a. Shoot the Piano Player)
David Goodis - Moon in the Gutter David Goodis - Night Squad
David Goodis - Nightfall (a.k.a. The Dark Chase, Convicted)
David Goodis - Of Tender Sin David Goodis - Street of No
Return David Goodis - Street of the Lost David Goodis - The
Burglar David Goodis - The Wounded and the Slain David
Markson - Epitaph for a Tramp David Markson - Epitaph for a
Dead Beat Davis Grubb - Night of the Hunter Day Keene - Home
is the Sailor Day Keene - Framed in Guilt Day Keene - My
Flesh is Sweet Donald Hamilton - Night Walker Donald Westlake
- 361 Ed McBain - The Gutter and the Grave Edward Anderson -
Thieves Like Us Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel
Fredric Brown - His Name Was Death Fredric Brown - Knock
Three-One-Two Fredric Brown - The Far Cry Fredric Brown - The
Lenient Beast Fredric Brown - The Screaming Mimi Geoffrey
Homes - Build My Gallows High Gil Brewer - The Red Scarf Gil
Brewer - Wild to Possess Gil Brewer - A Taste for Sin Gil
Brewer - The Vengeful Virgin Harry Whittington - A Moment to
Prey Harry Whittington - A Night for Screaming Harry
Whittington - A Ticket to Hell Harry Whittington - Any Woman
He Wanted Harry Whittington - Fires That Destroy Harry
Whittington - Forgive Me, Killer Harry Whittington - The
Devil Wears Wings Harry Whittington - Web of Murder Harry
Whittington - You'll Die Next Horace McCoy - They Shoot
Horses, Don't They? Howard Browne - Halo in Brass James M.
Cain - Double Indemnity James M. Cain - Mildred Pierce James
M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice James Ross - They
Don't Dance Much Jim Thompson - A Hell of a Woman Jim
Thompson - A Swell-Looking Babe Jim Thompson - After Dark My
Sweet Jim Thompson - Cropper's Cabin Jim Thompson - Nothing
More Than Murder Jim Thompson - Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson -
Recoil Jim Thompson - Savage Night Jim Thompson - The
Criminal Jim Thompson - The Getaway Jim Thompson - The
Grifters Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson -
The Transgressors Jim Thompson - Wild Town Joel Townsley
Rogers - The Red Right Hand John D. MacDonald - A Key to the
Suite John Franklin Bardin - The Deadly Percheron Jonathan
Latimer - Headed for a Hearse Jonathan Latimer - The Fifth
Grave (a.k.a. Solomon's Vineyard) Kenneth Fearing - The Big
Clock Lawrence Block - Mona (a.k.a. Grifter's Game) Lawrence
Block - The Girl with the Long Green Heart Mickey Spillane -
I, the Jury Mickey Spillane - Kiss Me Deadly Mickey Spillane
- My Gun is Quick Mickey Spillane - One Lonely Night Mickey
Spillane - The Big Kill Mickey Spillane - Vengence is Mine
Patricia Highsmith - A Game for the Living Patricia Highsmith
- A Suspension of Mercy Patricia Highsmith - Cry of the Owl
Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's
Game Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train Patricia
Highsmith - The Blunderer Patricia Highsmith - The Talented
Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness Patricia
Highsmith - Two Faces of January Paul Cain - Fast One Paul
Cain - Seven Slayers Peter Rabe - Anatomy of a Killer Peter
Rabe - Journey into Terror Peter Rabe - Kill the Boss Goodbye
Peter Rabe - The Box Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler - The High
Window Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake Raymond
Chandler - The Little Sister Raymond Chandler - Playback
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye Richard Hallas (Eric
Knight) - You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up Richard
Matheson - Fury on Sunday Richard Matheson - Ride the
Nightmare Richard Matheson - Someone is Bleeding Richard
Neeley - The Plastic Nightmare (aka Shattered) Robert Edmond
Alter - Carny Kill Robert Edmond Alter - Swamp Sister Ross
Macdonald - The Drowning Pool Seymour Shubin - Anyone's My
Name Steve Fisher - I Wake Up Screaming Vera Caspary - Laura
Vera Caspary - Bedelia W.R. Burnett - The Asphalt Jungle Wade
Miller - Branded Woman William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare
Alley William McGivern - The Big Heat
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