One Man's Muddle by E.(leanor) Baker Quinn is really quite
good as well as nearly impossible to find. (I got it through
Inter Library Loan) Published some time in the mid
30's.
And what about Grahman Greene? Brighton Rock. This Gun for
Hire.
And I couldn't agree more with Kersh's Night and the City as
a great Noir read, but wasn't it published in 1946 or 47?
Seems to fall outside your parameters. Or are you looking for
30s & 40s?
Steve Svecz
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RARA-AVIS: early noir: British
Can anyone add to these noirish titles by British writers, c.
1930-40?
--James Hadley Chase, _No Orchids for Miss Blandish_
--Gerald Kersh, _Night and the City_
--Francis Iles, _Before the Fact_
--Nicholas Blake (C S Lewis), _The Beast Must Die_; _Thou
Shell of Death_ (based on _The Revengers Tragedy_, a Jacobean
revenge play)
--D H Lawrence, _The Lovely Lady_ (novella)
--Marie Belloc Lowndes, _The Lodger_ (1913); _The Story of
Ivy_
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