Maltese Falcon Read-Alikes

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Classics

Double Indemnity  Cain, James M. 1935. (Fiction Cain)

The Postman Always Rings Twice  Cain, James M. 1934. (Fiction Cain)

The Big Sleep  Chandler, Raymond. 1939. (Mystery Chandler)

The Long Goodbye  Chandler, Raymond. 1954. (Mystery Chandler)

The Big Clock  Fearing, Kenneth. 1946. (Mystery Fearing)

Red Harvest  Hammett, Dashiell. 1929. (Mystery Hammett)

The Thin Man  Hammett, Dashiell. 1934. (Mystery Hammett)

Strangers on a Train  Highsmith, Patricia. 1950. (Mystery Highsmith)

In a Lonely Place  Hughes, Dorothy B. 1947. (Fiction Hughes)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman  James, P. D. 1972. (Mystery James)

The Chill  Macdonald, Ross. 1964. (Mystery Macdonald)

The Drowning Pool  Macdonald, Ross. 1950. (Mystery Macdonald)

Over My Dead Body  Stout, Rex. 1940. (Mystery pbk)

The Grifters  Thompson, Jim. 1963. (Mystery Thompson)

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: I Married a Dead Man, Waltz into Darkness, Rear Window and Other Stories  Woolrich, Cornell. 1998. (Mystery Woolrich)

Collections, etc.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps  edited by Otto Penzler (813.0872 B561 2007)

The Classic Era of Crime Fiction  Peter Haining (809.3872 H127c)

Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories  edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian (Mystery Hard)

Los Angeles Noir  edited by Denise Hamilton (813.087208 L896)

Plots With Guns: A Noir Anthology  edited by Anthony Neil Smith (Mystery Plots)

San Francisco Noir  edited by Peter Maravelis (Mystery San Francisco)

San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics  edited by Peter Maravelis (813.087208 Sa57s)

Suggested Current Authors

Lawrence Block

Ken Bruen

Robert Crais

James Ellroy

Stephen Greenleaf

Michael T. Harvey

Vicki Hendricks

Charlie Huston

Dennis Lehane

Elmore Leonard

Walter Mosley

Marcia Muller

Robert B. Parker

George Pelecanos

Linda Richards

Jason Starr

Andrew Vachss

Web Resources

The Adventures of Sam Spade - Episodes of the old time radio show available for download or MP3 streaming.

Black Mask Magazine - The classic pulp magazine where The Maltese Falcon first appeared.

The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler's manifesto, published in The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

Twists, Slug and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

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