LongsightM13
Well-Known Member
Whoah!!!!!!! Where to start, malc?
Two of my top 10 have already been named, Catch 22 and The Dice Man.
My true love, though, is American hard-boiled or 'pulp' crime. You know the kind of caper, wisecracking PI, femme fatale, gangsters with tommy guns, hoods, broads, bent cops etc.
I collect originals from the late 20s to the 60s for the resale investment value, and have made a fair bit on them, but I just love the Prohibition era, the style etc.
The two daddies are The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
For more modern stuff, anything by Tim Dorsey, Donald Westlake, James Crumley, Richard Stark, Don Winslow or Ireland's Ken Bruen will be brilliant.
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton is a new crime novel but one of the best ever in my opinion. As is Nobody Move by Denis Johnson.
Away from crime, Fighting Ruben Wolfe was the best new-ish book I read this last 12 months.
Two of my top 10 have already been named, Catch 22 and The Dice Man.
My true love, though, is American hard-boiled or 'pulp' crime. You know the kind of caper, wisecracking PI, femme fatale, gangsters with tommy guns, hoods, broads, bent cops etc.
I collect originals from the late 20s to the 60s for the resale investment value, and have made a fair bit on them, but I just love the Prohibition era, the style etc.
The two daddies are The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
For more modern stuff, anything by Tim Dorsey, Donald Westlake, James Crumley, Richard Stark, Don Winslow or Ireland's Ken Bruen will be brilliant.
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton is a new crime novel but one of the best ever in my opinion. As is Nobody Move by Denis Johnson.
Away from crime, Fighting Ruben Wolfe was the best new-ish book I read this last 12 months.