1. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
2. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
3. Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
4. The Galton Case, Ross MacDonald
5. A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
6. D is for Deadbeat, Sue Grafton
7. The Chill, Ross MacDonald
8. I, the Jury, Mickey Spillane
9. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
10. Death in a Bowl, Raoul Whitfield
If The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett were considered hardboiled
it would be
here also.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Denton [SMTP:buff@vex.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 9:27 PM
> To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: List of Best Of
>
> Following up to a message from a couple of weeks
ago:
>
> "Best Of" lists can be fun to do up, and are useful
for
> newcomers who aren't sure what to read first. If
people send me, or
> post to the list, their top ten hardboiled novels or
story
> collections, I'll sort them all out and find the ten
most listed.
>
> Suggested format:
>
> The Noose Swung Slowly, C. Bricks Allagash
> Two Slugs in a Dead Man, Phineas
Hardscrabble
> Etc.
>
> Put the top favourite at the top. You can leave out
numbers and
> think of it partly as a ranking but also as just your
top ten you'd
> recommend to someone else.
>
>
> Bill
> --
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| Caveat
> lector.
> "Let's keep the party polite."
>
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