Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction

For the fan of noir and hardboiled mysteries, in book and film: whether you love Hammett, Chandler, Ross MacDonald and the pulp fiction they sprang from; Graham Greene's noirish entertainments (and resulting films); Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, and women like Dorothy B. Hughes; or the far more recent treatments of James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, and the like.

We're resurrecting a group discussion of Jim Thompson's After Dark, My Sweet. If successful, we may of course, go on to other things.

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Topics		messages	Last message
Hard Case Crime		10	jju, March 26
What is the definition of a "Femme Fatale"?		2	quartzite, February 17
noir/hardboiled what the difference?		10	SimonW11, January 24
Nordic Noir reading list		2	Ammianus, January 18
What did you just finish reading and what are you currently reading?		21	btuckertx, December 2012
About Parker		4	Ammianus, November 2012
Wome Writers of Hardboiled/Noir		47	RDHawk6886, November 2012
Marlowe Lives		2	dcozy, August 2012
Massimo Carlotto in English?		2	bookstothesky, July 2012
For Derek Raymond fans...		7	bostonbibliophile, July 2012
Noir books		5	jju, June 2012
Anthology		16	jju, June 2012
Noir?		28	jju, June 2012
Cornell Woolrich on Member Giveaway		9	jju, June 2012
Essential Noir		26	MarkJacobs, May 2012
Good/great modern/contemporary noir/hard-boiled fiction		30	zenhobo2, May 2012
the heavy weight hard hitters from the arena of noir!!		7	MikeDennis, November 2011
Prayers for Rain		24	zanykm, July 2011
Two great noir novels		1	AlanForbes, May 2011
'The three I just done'		1	ink36, April 2011
Women of Noir		4	tros, March 2011
Favorite Cinematic Adaptations of Noir?		33	tros, March 2011
PARKER, Richard Stark, Donald Westlake		5	LintonRobinson, March 2011
Noir book requests		5	zanykm, August 2010
CN as seen in Science Fiction, films etc.		3	zenhobo2, March 2010
James Sallis		1	tros, September 2009
Help, my memory is shot (Maltese Falcon spoilers)		3	revelshade, March 2009
Wall Street Journal Article on The Thin Man		1	suburbguy, January 2009
Poem By Auden on Detective Fiction		6	ostrom, August 2008
After Dark, My Sweet		14	mstrust, July 2008
whodunit		5	yareader2, March 2008
Parker/Chandler books		3	VictoriaPL, February 2008
"The Big Nowhere" Ending - **Spoilers**		1	Katie_H, December 2007
Visit Baker Street		7	devenish, November 2007
Ross Macdonald		5	mrgah, September 2007
Unjustly Overlooked		5	tros, September 2007
LA 9/6: LA Reads? book club Mildred Pierce/pie at Philippe's		2	yareader2, September 2007
Any Horace McCoy fans?		2	yareader2, August 2007
Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction Message Board		168	Linkmeister, June 2007
Events: Raymond Chandler's LA tour launches 5/12		2	yareader2, May 2007
After Dark, My Sweet: Ch. 1 - 6		18	Eurydice, October 2006
Possible Group Reads		66	Eurydice, August 2006