Where can I find some good hard-boiled fiction? Any recommendations / essential works or authors for a beginner to the genre? I'm new and don't know where to start...
Where can I find some good hard-boiled fiction...
Matthew Cooper
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Ryder Evans
Hammett and Chandler
Gavin Kelly
I would like to know this as well. I love me some good gum shoe books with a noire flair
Jace Moore
Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler... got it. Anything by them in particular?
Eli Taylor
The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep.
Jack Bailey
Definitely Red Harvest. IIRC it was the inspiration of Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars.
Adam Barnes
I'd appreciate some recommendations too. I've already read Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon by Hammett, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity by Cain, and The Big Sleep by Chandler.
OP, any of those would be worth checking out as a starter point, all really good.
Brody Sullivan
John D. MacDonald
Ross Macdonald
John Morris
Not quite hard boiled but my favorite beat poet is Gregory Corso - just might be your cup of tea.
Check out "Hair" or "Marriage"
Lucas Gomez
How well do you think Bogart played Spade?
Sebastian Johnson
Wrong for the part. Bogart's a romantic, a softie at heart, and Spade was exactly the opposite.
Cameron Long
Jesus christ. What an awful post. Casablanca ruined another one.
Ayden Perry
In The Maltese Falcon film, Bogart's Spade almost lets his feelings for the girl get the better of him. In the book, this is never even a possibility. "I won't play the sap for you," he coolly says over and over.
Zachary Bennett
I don't know, I haven't seen the film. Is it good?
Evan Wood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uieM18rZdHY
Christopher Ross
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Black Dahlia
Easton Bell
thanks!
Xavier Kelly
the last good kiss by crumley is great
Joseph Rivera
Andrew Vachss is pretty good.
Lucas Reed
The Martin Beck series is fucking amazing
Angel Gray
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. It's fucking excellent.
Daniel Hall
GUn for Hire by Greene
Isaiah Parker
Must I read detective fiction before reading the new york trilogy?
Isaac Evans
Has anyone read Philip Kerr's book? Berlin Noir looks interesting
Levi Nguyen
James Ellroy is GOAT
Jaxson Foster
Which is hs best?
Juan Howard
bump
Robert Cox
Derek Raymond's books are the best detective fiction I've ever read, and goddamn Veeky Forums.
The New York Trilogy is great too, and if you're in for more "genre" experience Lansdale's Hap & Leonard series is pretty cool, as is the Watch series by Pratchett.
Brody Baker
The Killers by Hemingway is gen considered the establishing text
Strictly speaking "hard boiled" is q a narrow genre/timeframe
Raoul Whitfield is one of the more interesting lesser known hard boiled writers
Broadening the field to Noir :
Eliot Chaze- Black Wings has my Angel
Jean-Patrick Manchette- The Prone Gunman
Jim Thompson- Pop 1280
are a few good books IMO
The first three Factory novels are fine indeed.
Ryan Bailey
He does Phillip Marlowe better than anyone else though. Spade seems a. Little "softer boiled" than Marlowe
Aaron Hernandez
pleb question, but what's the difference between hard boiled and noir?
Liam Sanders
Noir = atmosphere is grim, dark, and/or nihilistic
Hardboiled = characters are tough-minded and masculine; plot is action-oriented
Leo Bennett
Jace Jenkins
woah, have anything else like this???
Oliver Price
best part of The Maltese Falcon is the homo villains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and the gunsel kid.
The broad's not bad either.
Aaron Garcia
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Bentley Hall
Dashiell Hammett.
Christian Fisher
Are you a woman? Because women read mystery.
Julian Hernandez
Hard Boiled was mostly written prior to WWII and was pulpy to some extent. Noir was written post WWII and was able to tap into the emotions/sentiments of those who just experienced war. Those this guy got the basic description down.
Jackson Foster
There are no girls on the internet.
Michael Collins
The businnes of dying, by Simon Kernick
Ryan Rogers
I know it is a bit of a stretch, but The New York Trilogy is a great piece of detective fiction. Paul Auster manages to write mystery in a compelling, atmospheric and meta way; I've never read anything like that before him.
Reccomended.