Mark wrote:
Oh yeah, I meant to reply to this. Sounds like a good idea,
miker. Are you (and others) going to suggest some books of
critical works beforehand?
*********** Here are a few that I've got in mind:
Pulp Jungle, Gruber Difficult Lives, Sallis Noir Fiction,
Duncan Murder Off the Rack, Breen and Greenberg Pulp Culture,
Haut Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties, edited by Madden
Novel of Violence in America, Frohock The Modern American
Novel of Violence, Shaw Over My Dead Body, Server Writing and
Other Blood Sports, Willeford Into the Badlands, Williams
Neon Noir, Haut The World of Chandler, edited by Gross
Raymond Chandler, Marling Gun in Cheek, Pronzini Dime
Detectives, Goulart American Realism and Naturalism, edited
by Pizer American Literary Naturalism, Walcutt Naturalistic
Inner-City Novel in America, Giles Collected Memoirs,
Willeford The Perfect Murder, Lehman Dashiell Hammett, Dooley
The American Roman Noir, Marling American Detective, Siegel
Saint With a Gun, Ruehlmann Chester Himes, Milliken Private
Eyes, Baker and Nietzel Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes,
Klein Hard-Boiled, Smith Fine Art of Murder, edited by Gorman
Nathanael West, edited by Martin Big Book of Noir, edited by
Gorman Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery, Murphy
Encyclopedia Mysteriosa, DeAndrea Detective Agency, Walton
and Jones
And then a few isolated essays, such as "The Boys in the Back
Room, by Wilson, and The Decline and Fall of the Detective
Story, by Maugham.
And yes! I would welcome suggestions. Right now!
miker
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