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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