An enlightening, sometimes controversial, but always entertaining book. And among those 100 books, the P.I. genre was well-represented, including (in chronological order):

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• Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett (The Continental Op)
  
  
• The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade)
  
  
• The Case of the Sulky Girl (1933) by Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason)
  
  
• The League of Frightened Men (1935) by Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe)
  
  
• The High Window (1942) by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe)
  
  
• The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) by Fredric Brown (Ed and Am Hunter)
  
  
• The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe)
  
  
• Blind Man With a Pistol (1969) by Chester Himes (Coffin Ed johnson and Grave Digger Jones)
  
  
• Fletch (1974) by Gregory McDonald (Fletch-duh!)
  
  
• The Blue Hammer (1976) by Ross Macdonald (Lew Archer)
  
  
• Skinflick by Joseph Hansen (Dave Brandstetter)
  
  
• The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee)

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