I would add Shattered and the Fletch novels, among others . .
.
> I think the Seventies are the great lost decade
in
> hardboiled. It was a time when a lot of people
were
> evidently trying to do "serious" hb or "literary"
hb,
> or something like it. The best efforts of the
decade
> are extraordinarily good:
>
> FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
> LAST GOOD KISS
> COCAINE AND BLUE EYES (arguably the great
forgotten
> novel of the decade)
> NIGHT OF THE TOADS
> DOG SOLDIERS
> THE UNDERGROUND MAN
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