Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled Classics 1998

From: Peedie Monk ( peediemonk@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 30 May 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Buzz" < BuzzMeeks@attbi.com>
> Let's hear it, Al.

Okay. This list began life as a response to a new rara-avian seeking opinions as to the top two books in the genre. Top two became top ten. The end result was the following, which is as odd for its inclusions (Charles Brockden Brown?, "Grimhaven") as it is for its omissions (no Goodis or Woolrich). Anyway, in 1998 the rara-avians who voted believed these were the best titles they had read. Apologies for any typos/spelling mistakes.

Lawrence Block - Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block - When The Sacred Ginmill Closes Charles Brockden Brown - Edgar Huntly Fredric Brown - Homicide Sanitarium (short stories) Fredric Brown - The Lenient Beast Fredric Brown - The Wench Is Dead Max Byrd - Finders Weepers Victor Canning - The Whip Hand James M Cain - Double Indemnity James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice Paul Cain - Fast One Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel Max Allan Collins - The Million Dollar Wound Max Allan Collins - Stolen Away Michael Collins - Act of Fear James Crumley - The Last Good Kiss James Ellroy - American Tabloid James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential James Ellroy - White Jazz Loren D Estelman - Silent Thunder Loren D Estelman - Sugartown John Evans (Howard Browne) - Halo For Satan William Faulkner - Sanctuary Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock Joe Gores - Gone, No Forwarding Joe Gores - Interface Sue Grafton - A is for Alibi Sue Grafton - D is for Deadbeat Richard Hallas (Eric Knight) - You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest W L Heath - Violent Saturday George V Higgens - The Friends of Eddie Coyle Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley Chester Himes - The Big Gold Dream Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem Chester Himes - For Love of Imabelle (A Rage in Harlem) Geoffrey Household - Rogue Male Maxim Jakubowski (Editor) - Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction Richard E Johnson - Mongo's Back In Town Day Keene - Sleep With the Devil Elmore Leonard - Freaky Deaky John D MacDonald - April Evil John D MacDonald - Murder For the Bride Ross Macdonald - The Chill Ross Macdonald - The Far Side of the Dollar Ross Macdonald - The Galton Case Ross Macdonald - The Moving Target Dan Marlowe - The Name of the Game is Death Richard Marsten (Ed McBain) - Big Man Horace McCoy - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Scott Meredith (Editor) - The Best From Manhunt Marcel Montecino - Big Time Walter Mosley - Devil In a Blue Dress Walter Mosley - A Little Yellow Dog Jack O'Connell - Box Nine Robert B Parker - God Save the Child Robert B Parker - The Godwulf Manuscript Robert B Parker - Promised Land Richard Prather&Stephen Marlowe - Double in Trouble Peter Rabe - Murder Me for Nickels James Sallis - The Long-legged Fly Joseph T Shaw (Editor) - The Hard-Boiled Omnibus Mickey Spillane - The Girl Hunters Mickey Spillane - I, the Jury Mickey Spillane - One Lonely Night Shane Stevens - Dead City Richard Stark - The Hunter (Point Blank) Ross Thomas - The Fools In Town Are On My Side Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson - Pop. 1280 Jonathan Valin - Dead Letter Raoul Whitfield - Death In A Bowl Raoul Whitfield - Green Ice Charles Willeford - Grimhaven (unpublished) Charles Willeford - The Way We Die Now Charles Willeford - Woman Chaser (The Director)

In order of votes cast, the top 15 were: 1:The Maltese Falcon 2:The Long Goodbye 3:The Big Sleep 4=Farewell My Lovely 4=The Last Good Kiss 4=The Postman Always Rings Twice 7:Red Harvest 8=The Big Nowhere 8=The Black Dahlia 8=The Big Clock 8=You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up 8=The Friends of Eddie Coyle 8=The Talented Mr Ripley 8=The Chill 8=Pop. 1280

Al Guthrie

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