My reading of HB authors goes back a couple of years, alas,
but both the McDonalds are on my list: reread Ross McDonald
at least twice, searched the second-hand bookshops for more
Travis McGee series. Chandler and Hammett were my
introduction to the HB world and Ellroy makes five. Not a
very interesting list, but Max Byrd could be on it if I would
have kept on reading HB authors...
1. Ross McDonald (skeletons, skeletons)
2. Raymond Chandler
3. James Ellroy (a difficult writer but worth it: I didn't
find back the bleak world of LA Confidential in the movie:
novel vs entertainment ;
'Silent terror' is as a RAvian pointed out, a good one to
begin with.)
4. John McDonald
5. Joe Gores (Interface, Hammett etc)
Cheers from the Netherlands,
Piet
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