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redfiona99I bounced off "The Maltese Falcon" but I thought I'd give this a go.
Much more my sort of thing.
I think Chandler's style allows you to have more feeling for the central character, I know that Dashiell Hammett gave Sam Spade no interior dialogue deliberately, but there's this lovely edgy flippant hidden bleeding heart to Philip Marlowe.
The plot barely hangs together but it's hard to notice that with all the characters being so richly drawn.
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
Spade & Archer by Joe Gores
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Continental Op: The Complete Case Files by Dashiell Hammett
Savage Night by Jim Thompson
Much more my sort of thing.
I think Chandler's style allows you to have more feeling for the central character, I know that Dashiell Hammett gave Sam Spade no interior dialogue deliberately, but there's this lovely edgy flippant hidden bleeding heart to Philip Marlowe.
The plot barely hangs together but it's hard to notice that with all the characters being so richly drawn.
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
Spade & Archer by Joe Gores
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Continental Op: The Complete Case Files by Dashiell Hammett
Savage Night by Jim Thompson
