Al Guthrie wrote:
> 1: KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE (Horace McCoy,
1948).
> 2: FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (Raymond Chandler,
1940)
> 3: THE DARK PASSAGE (Goodis)
> 4: THE DEADLY PERCHERON (John Franklin Bardin,
1946)
> 5: THEY DON'T DANCE MUCH (James Ross,
1940).
> The ones that almost made it
(chronologically):
> PHANTOM LADY Cornell Woolrich, 1942
> THE BUTTERFLY James M Cain, 1946
> BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH Geoffrey Homes,
1946
> I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES Boris Vian, 1946
> NIGHTFALL (DARK CHASE) David Goodis, 1947
> PRELUDE TO A CERTAIN MIDNIGHT Gerald Kersh,
1947
> FRAMED IN GUILT Day Keene, 1949
**************** Again, thanks for the recommendations, Al.
I'm working on my second Chandler right now, THE LONG
GOODBYE. I got lucky when I was out in St. Louis recently and
found a bunch more Chandler novels that I'm anxious to read.
I'll definitely have to read the Bardin novel, since I've got
a collection of three of them. And again you pegged an author
I've never heard of, James Ross.
And all the rest too! I've seen a lot of recommendations for
Cornell's PHANTOM LADY. You and Ed and Rene and others. I'm
putting that on the must-read list.
miker
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