Jsbuturn,
I notice that you mention MR. BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER by
Donald Henderson and LAZARUS #7 by Richard Sale. Those are
some of the books that Chandler mentions having had fun
reading in his essay
"The Simple Art of Murder". I've always been intrigued by the
little list in Chandler's essay, but never enough to try to
locate the books.
You might want to try Sale's NOT TOO NARROW, NOT TOO DEEP
(1936) that's both a hardboiled adventure and a religious
allegory. It's quite strong in both counts.
As for other forgotten hardboiled masters, I'd suggest you
try Floyd Mahannah who was pretty early deconstructing some
of the cliché³ of the P.I. novels. I've also like very much
some novels by Richard Deming and Walt Sheldon.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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