Noir Classics

[Dave Monroe]

2009/7/9 Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
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> Hey, folks, which noir novels would you recommend as the best representatives of the genre?

I'm not a big noir/crim/detective/hard-boiled/whatever novel reader,
but I have gotten some use out of this ...

Marling, William. The American Roman Noir. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1995.

http://www.ugapress.org/0820320811.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZpKutZcAPGYC

And see as well, e.g., ...

Scholarship on Hard-Boiled Fiction (through 2001)

http://www.detnovel.com/ScholBiblio.html

Meanwhile, on film ...

Naremore, James.  More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts.
   Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8118001.php
http://books.google.com/books?id=eTv1SMu5PF0C