Neddal,
Name of the Game is Death by Dan Marlowe is one of my
favorites.
Jim Thompson has a number of great psycho-noir books: Hell of
A woman, Swell-Looking Babe, Savage Night, Pop. 1280, Killer
Inside Me, among some other great noir: The Getaway, After
Dark, My Sweet, The Grifters
Of course James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, Postman Always
Rings Twice), David Goodis (Shoot The Piano Player, many
others)
Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin is terrific, as is Seymour Shubin's
Anyone's My Name. Rex Stout's first book, How Like a God, is
just brilliant - I highly recommend it.
More recent noir - you should definitely check out Jason
Starr's Hard Feelings + Tough Love (Twisted City is next on
my plate, and I'll will be reporting on that soon), Vicky
Hendricks Voluntary Madness + Miami Purity, and an extremely
talented new writer, Allan Guthrie's Two-Way Split.
And for a quick fix for noir stories, check out Hardluck
Stories at: http://www.hardluckstories.com/zine.htm
-Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, aria376 <aria376@y...>
wrote:
> Cornell Woolrich....
> ;
> nayad@m... wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering if anyone can suggest some good heavy
noir books,
> collections, or stories. I've read a bunch of Vachss
and Ian
Rankin
> and am looking for something a bit darker. I've
heard good things
> about Block's Matt Scudder series, but I checked out
his
collection
> "Hitman" and found it a bit too...upbeat.
>
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