Crime Novels to Read Before You Die - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T10:52:18Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:130728?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A132397&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHi everybody, hope you all ar…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-07-17:537324:Comment:1521862008-07-17T18:52:59.071ZDiane Meyerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DianeMeyerThe
Hi everybody, hope you all are having a great day! I think that The Thin Man, Charlie Chan, Helter Skelter, Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Comrade Chikatilo, Conspiracy of Silence, Hannibal Rising, Caril, Murder in Coweta County, Black Dahlia, any books by Mark Furhman, Joseph Wambaugh, James Ellroy, Harold Schechter, Ron Franscell, Ann Rule, The Zodiac, The Serial Killer Files, Written in Blood, L.A. Confidential, Children Who Kill, Maltese Falcon, Righteous Carnage, Perry Mason…
Hi everybody, hope you all are having a great day! I think that The Thin Man, Charlie Chan, Helter Skelter, Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Comrade Chikatilo, Conspiracy of Silence, Hannibal Rising, Caril, Murder in Coweta County, Black Dahlia, any books by Mark Furhman, Joseph Wambaugh, James Ellroy, Harold Schechter, Ron Franscell, Ann Rule, The Zodiac, The Serial Killer Files, Written in Blood, L.A. Confidential, Children Who Kill, Maltese Falcon, Righteous Carnage, Perry Mason books, Fall (Ron Franscell), Cannibals. I could go on and on, there are the older books from my dad's time), Robert Parker, oops! there I go again. Better leave well enough alone. I hope these helped a bit, they happen to be some of my favorites. Thanks for the chance to list some of them. Diane Meyer (Grandma591) The Lew Griffin books by Jame…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-25:537324:Comment:1331352008-03-25T20:29:55.776ZBrianLindenmuthhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BrianL
The Lew Griffin books by James Sallis<br />
Drive by James Sallis<br />
Last Call by Tim Powers<br />
Kiss Me Judas by Will Christopher Baer<br />
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<br />
Red Baker by Robert Ward<br />
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy<br />
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter<br />
The God File by Frank Turner Hollon<br />
The Cleanup by Sean Doolittle<br />
The Impossible Bird by Patrick O'Leary<br />
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster<br />
The Insult by Rupert Thomson<br />
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe<br />
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien<br />
The Skin…
The Lew Griffin books by James Sallis<br />
Drive by James Sallis<br />
Last Call by Tim Powers<br />
Kiss Me Judas by Will Christopher Baer<br />
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<br />
Red Baker by Robert Ward<br />
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy<br />
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter<br />
The God File by Frank Turner Hollon<br />
The Cleanup by Sean Doolittle<br />
The Impossible Bird by Patrick O'Leary<br />
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster<br />
The Insult by Rupert Thomson<br />
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe<br />
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien<br />
The Skin Palace by Jack O'Connell<br />
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller<br />
Clockers by Richard Price<br />
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley<br />
An Instance of the Fingerposts<br />
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson<br />
The Devil's Redhead by David Corbett<br />
The Shark Infested Custard by Charles Willeford<br />
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes<br />
Giveadamn Brown by Robert Dean Pharr<br />
The Jones Men by Vern E. Smith<br />
American Skin by Ken Bruen Ross Macdonald, The Galton Ca…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-24:537324:Comment:1327742008-03-24T17:16:48.592ZSara Meredithhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/SaraMeredith
Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case and all of the other novels; Michael Connelly, Rex Stout, and Dashiell Hammett.
Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case and all of the other novels; Michael Connelly, Rex Stout, and Dashiell Hammett. You mention one of the most u…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-22:537324:Comment:1323972008-03-22T02:38:31.386ZJackBludishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
You mention one of the most unappreciatiated of the crime writers, not to mention a great movie reviewer--Stephen Hunter.<br />
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Jack
You mention one of the most unappreciatiated of the crime writers, not to mention a great movie reviewer--Stephen Hunter.<br />
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Jack What a great list of lists. J…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-21:537324:Comment:1322502008-03-21T02:05:53.118ZJackBludishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
What a great list of lists. Just about every book that I might put on the list has already been mentioned. Except perhaps for Jordan Dane's NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM, which doesn't come out until next week.<br />
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Jack
What a great list of lists. Just about every book that I might put on the list has already been mentioned. Except perhaps for Jordan Dane's NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM, which doesn't come out until next week.<br />
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Jack Umm, I believe it's R.D.Wingf…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-19:537324:Comment:1319792008-03-19T14:04:08.865ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Umm, I believe it's R.D.Wingfield. Sorry.
Umm, I believe it's R.D.Wingfield. Sorry. What I haven't seen so far:
(…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-19:537324:Comment:1319342008-03-19T06:13:07.654ZSteve Allanhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/SteveAllan
What I haven't seen so far:<br />
(Can't believe he hasn't been mentioned) Elmore Leonard - <i>Get Shorty</i> or <i>Stick</i> or <i>Glitz</i><br />
George V. Higgins - <i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</i><br />
George Pelecanos - <i>The Big Blow Down</i> or <i>King Suckerman</i><br />
Daniel Woodrell - <i>The Death of Sweet Mister</i><br />
Scott Phillips - <i>The Ice Harvest</i><br />
Ross MacDonald - <i>The Chill</i> or <i>The Doomsters</i><br />
Gregory MacDonald - <i>Fletch</i> or <i>Confess, Fletch</i><br />
T. Jefferson Parker - <i>Silent…</i>
What I haven't seen so far:<br />
(Can't believe he hasn't been mentioned) Elmore Leonard - <i>Get Shorty</i> or <i>Stick</i> or <i>Glitz</i><br />
George V. Higgins - <i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</i><br />
George Pelecanos - <i>The Big Blow Down</i> or <i>King Suckerman</i><br />
Daniel Woodrell - <i>The Death of Sweet Mister</i><br />
Scott Phillips - <i>The Ice Harvest</i><br />
Ross MacDonald - <i>The Chill</i> or <i>The Doomsters</i><br />
Gregory MacDonald - <i>Fletch</i> or <i>Confess, Fletch</i><br />
T. Jefferson Parker - <i>Silent Joe</i><br />
Caleb Carr - <i>The Alienist</i><br />
Arthur Conan Doyle - <i>The Hounds of the Baskervilles</i><br />
Graham Greene - <i>Brighton Rock</i> or <i>Our Man in Havana</i><br />
Cormac McCarthy - <i>No Country for Old Men</i><br />
Patricia Highsmith - <i>The Talented Mr. Ripley</i><br />
James Crumley - <i>The Last Good Kiss</i> or <i>The Wrong Case</i><br />
Umberto Eco - <i>The Name of the Rose</i><br />
John Grisham - <i>The Firm</i><br />
Stephen King - <i>Dolores Claiborne</i> or <i>Misery</i><br />
Nelson DeMille - <i>The Gold Coast</i><br />
Tom Clancy - <i>The Hunt for Red October</i><br />
Joseph Wambaugh - <i>The Golden Orange</i><br />
Scott Turow - <i>Presumed Innocent</i><br />
Scott Smith - <i>A Simple Plan</i><br />
Richard Condon - <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i> or <i>Prizzi's Honor</i><br />
William Goldman - <i>Marathon Man</i> or <i>Magic</i><br />
Donald Westlake - <i>The Hot Rock</i><br />
Frank Miller - <i>Sin City</i><br />
Walter Mosely - <i>Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned</i><br />
Robert Ferrigno - <i>Horse Latitudes</i><br />
Tom Wolfe - <i>The Bonfire of the Vanities</i><br />
Pete Dexter - <i>Paris Trout</i> or<i>The Paperboy</i><br />
Richard Price - <i>Clockers</i> And J.D.Wingfield for the bes…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-18:537324:Comment:1318812008-03-18T21:34:53.749ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
And J.D.Wingfield for the best police procedurals of all.
And J.D.Wingfield for the best police procedurals of all. I would add; Mark Frost's: Th…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-18:537324:Comment:1318182008-03-18T18:07:07.706ZCharles A. Kinghttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/jeeks43
I would add; Mark Frost's: The List of Seven, David Simon's Homicide Life on The Streets, and James Ellroy's: L.A. Confidential. (a seconding as someone else already mentioned it) Hmmm? Maybe these aren't must-reads, but they're darn good.
I would add; Mark Frost's: The List of Seven, David Simon's Homicide Life on The Streets, and James Ellroy's: L.A. Confidential. (a seconding as someone else already mentioned it) Hmmm? Maybe these aren't must-reads, but they're darn good. You have a copy of "The Case…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-18:537324:Comment:1316572008-03-18T01:26:47.894ZPatrick Balesterhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PatrickBalester
You have a copy of "The Case of the Velvet Claws"!!!! (Drool...) Any chance we could start a lending library so I could borrow that from you?<br />
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I have been looking for that classic for ages. Congratulations on your good taste.
You have a copy of "The Case of the Velvet Claws"!!!! (Drool...) Any chance we could start a lending library so I could borrow that from you?<br />
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I have been looking for that classic for ages. Congratulations on your good taste.