Re: RARA-AVIS: List of Best Of

John Woolley (jwoolley@dna420.mcit.com)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:58:12 -0600 (MDT) My personal top ten hardboiled list:

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
The Wench Is Dead, Fredric Brown
Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy (or maybe The Big Nowhere)
Violent Saturday, W. L. Heath
The Long-Legged Fly, James Sallis (hard to pick just one)
Murder for the Bride, John D. MacDonald (ditto)
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, edited by Maxim Jakubowski
The Hard-Boiled Omnibus, edited by Joseph T. Shaw

-- Fr. John Woolley

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