Bill asked
> What do you recommend for 1970s reading?
Bill, if you don't have much from the seventies on your
shelves you're in for a treat, this is a key decade in the
development of the genre, a time when writers who might
previously have written literary fiction turned their
attention to h/b to considerable mutual benefit. Here are
some that spring easily to mind
George V. Higgins - The Friends Of Eddie Coyle - maybe the
finest hardboiled novel of them all - and half a dozen other
good ones
Elmore Leonard for certain - esp the Detroit nopvels, The
Switch, Unknown Man No 89etc - writing masterclasses one and
all
James Crumley - The Wrong Case and The Last Good Kiss - none
more romantically h/b
Joe Gores - especially Interface, none more noir
Newton Thornburg - To Die In California, Cutter & Bone,
Black Angus - Vietnam comes home
Mark Behm - Eye Of The Beholder - singular PI novel
James Lee Burke's masterpiece - The Lost Get Back
Boogie
Tony Hillerman - not forgetting his political thriller The
Fly On The Wall
Ross Thomas - any number of classics
Jerome Charyn - The first Isaac novels
Douglas Fairbairn - Shoot (Vietnam comes home again) and
Street 8 (the beginnings of Miami noir)
MF Beal - Angel Dance - post Vietnam noir written by a woman
from the radical underground
Jon A Jackson - The Blind Pig
Donald Westlake - The Dortmunder novels et al
and from the UK..
Ted Lewis - Plender, Billy Rags, GBH et al
P.B. Yuill - the Hazell books - probably the best crime
novels written by a former professional sportsman
John
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