Can you recommend other writers I may like? Private eye, murder mystery, or old LA style stories are my favorites.
2006-10-30 06:17:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try Dashiell Hammett, especially the Maltese Falcon. Also, while not set in Boston Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels.
2006-10-30 06:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like Chandler than give these writers a try Agatha Christie, Mickey Spillane and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle they are all excellent writers and touch on much of the same materials. Spies, private eyes and good old fashioned mysteries!
Mrhaggard
2006-10-30 06:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by mrhaggard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dennis lahane has some great novels with a couple of detectives in it.... however, shutter island and mystic river are not the books with the PIs in it... i like mystic river, shutter island is horrible!!! but the detective novels are (in order):The Kenzie-Gennaro novels
* A Drink Before the War (1994)
* Darkness, Take My Hand (1996)
* Sacred (1997)
* Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
* Prayers for Rain (1999)
also good is robert b parker's spenser novels....i have read them all!! the new one , one hundred dollar baby is great so far....
2006-10-30 18:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by derek s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rex Stout - his Nero Wolfe novels. Great reads! And there was a TV series on A&E that was EXCELLENT. It is available on DVD (rental - still VERY expensive to purchase).
2006-10-30 06:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by dreamweaver.629ok 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋