Noir Classics

[rich]

Sleeping Beauty was great and The Chill even better

MacDonald seems to talk about Long Beach alot and not in a good way

Lew Archer is such a sympathetic character and honest.

I can't help but add the great Bernie Gunther series by Phillip
Kerr--A german requiem and The One from the Other are very much 'in
the Zone'

rich

On 7/9/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Ya Sam wrote:
>
>> Hey, folks, which noir novels would you recommend as the best
>> representatives of the genre?
>
> Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" is the first thing that comes to
> mind. The character of Lew Basnight evokes Chandler's heir Ross
> Macdonald, whose gumshoe is named Lew Archer. As Macdonald's stories
> are set in Southern California and some are set in the sixties/
> seventies that's a good place to start looking. Vineland and Against
> the Day have a lot of echos of Macdonald's work. "Sleeping Beauty"
> concerns itself with the big oil spill in Santa Barbara. The time and
> setting of that book has a good chance of being reflected in Inherent
> Vice.
>