Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:56:15 -0800 (PST)
Following is my list of "established hard boiled authors have
ever you read whose work that so blew you away on first
exposure that you tried to find and then read all they had
written as soon as possible". They are listed in the order
that I discovered em, and the first book read, where
possible.
1) Dashiell Hammett [THE BIG KNOCKOVER] 2) Raymond Chandler
[one of the novels-think it was FAREWELL, MY LOVELY] 3) Jim
Thompson [THE GETAWAY] 4) James Ellroy [THE BLACK DAHLIA] 5)
Richard Stark [POINT BLANK]
I'm also very fond of John D. McDonald's Travis McGee series
as well as Gores' DKA books.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
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