Does anyone know a good comtemperary writer/s of Noir fiction?

Question

But I'm talking about new stuff, not the old. A writer who writes in more comtemperary times but with that noir 30s, 40s, and 50s type style. Like a modern day Dashill Hammit (I think I spelled that wrong but oh well). You know something like that.

Answer 1

Your answers include my favorites.
Jim Thompson: The Killer Inside Me. Movie made with Stacey Keach
Ross Macdonald: The Lew Archer series. Renamed Harper for Paul Newman and the movies.
Ed McBain (alias Evan Hunter). The 87Th precinct and Matthew Hope novels. Recently passed away.
Edward Bunker: Convicted bank robber who made it big and stayed out of jail. Realism like no others. Recently passed away. Played one of the crooks in the movie "Reservoir Dogs".
Raymond Chandler: Created Philip Marlow.
John D. Macdonald: The Travis McGee novels
Tony Hillerman: Crime and present day Indian culture. The Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn mysteries. Movies of his books are produced by PBS and Robert Redford.

Answer 2

Try Michael Connelly and Ian Rankin. But first try Walter Mosley, who is telling the story of Easy Rawlins, a black independent private eye doing jobs the LA cops can't. The books move through the decades bwteen the post-WW II era through, by now, the Watts riots of the 60s. He is the closest thing to Chandler and Hammett these days -- a solitary detective, closely observed social reporting. Than try James Ellroy, who writes noir but noir pushed to the nth degree. A hyper style, nwoing and tough. He sets things in different eras, mostly in Chandler territory (LA).

Answer 3

Robert Parker, the guy who wrote the Spenser series.
James Elroy
Elmore Leonard

And the best--Jim Thompson

Answer 4

Andrew Vachss