I¹m very glad you mention Arjouni, I bought two of his while in UK (Happy
Birthday Turk and More Beer) and they were excellent...Marc Behm¹s is
hauting and very beautiful...unfortunately the movie (Mortelle Randonnée
Claude Miller 83) is not as good except for the performance of Michel
Serrault.
Bunker is a very strong writer worth anybodies lot...
Montois
On 3/2/09 2:26 PM, "Mark Sullivan" <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
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> As noted by others, much of the much older stuff is gone, but looking through
> their author's list, there's still some very good stuff worth recommending.
> Here are a few I've like (most through US editions, don't know how many are
> still in print here, though):
>
> Jakob Arjouni's Happy Birthday, Turk -- keep meaning to read others by him
>
> Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder -- I cannot recommend this highly enough, a
> truly subversive private eye novel, set me up for later enjoying books by the
> likes of O'Connell and Sallis, below. I hear the movie stinks.
>
> Edward Bunker, particularly No Beast So Fierce (AKA Straight Time) -- it shows
> an upcoming book by him, Deathrow Breakout and Other Stories; anyone know
> anything about this? I'll definitely be picking that up.
>
> Max Decharne's Hardboiled Hollywood compares the books and movies of a number
> of hardboiled classics. Really insightful commentary.
>
> Anthony Frewin -- I have one of his books, but haven't read it.
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> Joseph Hansen's David Brandstetter series is highly recommended.
>
> Kenji Jasper's Dark is a Street Lit noir that I enjoyed
>
> John Milne's Brit PI Jimmy Jenner series is quite good; it's also interesting
> for not really playing off the US PI model, as Timlin, for instance, does (not
> a putdown of Timlin, I've enjoyed the Nick Sharman books I've read and wish
> they'd issue the TV series, starrign Clive Owen as Sharman, on DVD in the
> States).
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> Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source is an absolute classic of surfer noir; I've
> enjoyed everything I've read by him, though I'm a few behind.
>
> Jack O'Connell's Quinsigamond series is a favorite of mine -- you can see many
> raves from me (and others) on this series in the archives.
>
> James Sallis is among the best currently working.
>
> Wang Shuo -- read his Playing for Thrills some years ago and enjoyed it (a
> very Chinese noir that's a bit odd, but intriguing from my Western
> perspective). I didn't know anything else by him had been reprinted. I'll
> definitely be picking up the other.
>
> Jason Starr -- name seems familiar, don't know where from -- Hi Jason.
>
> Charles Willeford -- if you haven't read him, well, you're really missing
> something
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> Daniel Woodrell -- these are two of his Remy Shade novels. I read the first a
> long, long time ago and liked it, need to read the others.
>
> Mark
>
>> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
>> > From: nevins_mark@yahoo.com <mailto:nevins_mark%40yahoo.com>
>> > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 04:20:02 -0800
>> > Subject: RARA-AVIS: No Exit Press
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I discovered Raoul Whitfield via No Exit editions, and they seem to have a
>> produced a great little catalogue (in both MMPB and TPB size) over the years,
>> including Paul Cain and other of the classics.
>> >
>> > I love their WeeGee-stmax Decharneyle photo covers, and my only complaint
>> is that their bindings (at least in some of the older books) seem pretty
>> shoddy, with the glue cracking badly. In a few cases my No Exit books have
>> become No Exit portfolios.
>> >
>> > A list of their current titles can be found on their website:
>> > http://www.noexit.co.uk/index.php
>> >
>> > Seems like some of the older titles have gone out of print, and I have
>> never heard of some of the authors in the current catalogue, so if there are
>> any recommendations, let us know.
>> >
>> > I always keep an eye out for No Exit books when I travel to London, and I
>> was lucky to have found an apparently unread copy of Fake I.D. a few years
>> back.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Mark Nevins
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