Twenty-One Private Eye Classics Chosen by Gary Warren Niebuhr

From The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel

Compiled by Gary Warren Niebuhr, one of the true experts in the genre and a guy at least as obsessed as I am about all things P.I., The Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel is a whopper of a book, and an absolutely essential reference to the genre.

It offers entries on over a thousand titles by more than 90 authors and more lists than I can list, including series characters, authors, settings and locations and possibly best of all, a list of what he considers the "100 Classic Recommended Titles."

• As Bad As I Am (1959) by William Ard (Mike Fontaine and Barney Glines)
  
  
• The Fabulous Clipjoint (1947) by Fredric Brown (Ed and Am Hunter)
  
  
• The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe)
  
  
• Farewell My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe)
  
  
• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
  
  
• The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe)
  
  
• The Urgent Hangman (1939) by Peter Cheyney
  
  
• True Detective (1983) by Max Allan Collins
  
  
• True Crime (1984) by Max Allan Collins
  
  
• The Eighth Circle (1958) by Stanley Ellin (Murray Kirk)
  
  
• The Bigger They Come (1939) by A.A. Fair (Bertha Cool & Donald Lam)
  
  
• The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade)
  
  
• $106,000 Blood Money (1943) by Dashiell Hammett (The Continental Op)
  
  
• Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett (The Continental Op)
  
  
• Red Gardenias (1939) by Jonathan Latimer (Bill Crane)
  
  
• The Drowning Pool (1950) by Ross Macdonald (Lew Archer)
  
  
• Deadly Weapon (1946) by Wade Miller (Walter James)
  
  
• Uneasy Street (1948) by Wade Miller (Max Thursday)
  
  
• Bitter Medecine (1987) by Sara Paretsky (V.I. Warshawski)
  
  
• The Death of the Detective (1973) by Mark Smith (Arnold Magnuson)
  
  
• I, The Jury (1947) by Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer)

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