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d4doome · @d4doome
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Mickey Spillane’s 1964 novel The Snake is a sequel to The Girl Hunters and you absolutely must read The Girl Hunters first. This is a very different Mike Hammer - older, wiser and sadder. Both books are great, but read the earlier books first.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Sin Pit (1954) is Paul S. Meskil’s only novel. It's seriously hardboiled, most definitely noir and pretty sleazy. This is the seamy underside of 1950s America. A cynical cop gets drawn into a nightmare world of lust. Excellent book.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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W.R. Burnett's High Sierra, a great noir novel by a great writer. A bank robber just out of jail gets mixed up in a heist with a bunch of amateurs and a girl. He used to be a big shot. Now he's tired and fatalistic. The book packs a real punch.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Noël Calef’s novel Frantic (original French title Ascenseur pour ’échafaud) was published in 1956. The basis for Louis Malle’s superb 1958 film noir Elevator to the Gallows.

Lots of noirness, fine suspense, a powerful sense of impending doom, some nasty plot twists. Fine stuff.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Jon Nixon · @noonjinx
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An excellent thirty year old hard boiled private detective noir series that somehow I completely missed until now. Will definitely read more

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/

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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Girl With No Place To Hide (1959), a Marvin H. Albert Jake Barrow PI thriller written under the name Nick Quarry. Rescuing a girl leads Jake into the worlds of high fashion and photography and high-stakes gambling.

Good noirish stuff.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Day Keene's Joy House was published 1954. A man loses five weeks of his life in an alcoholic haze. All he remembers is that he was a successful but unethical trial lawyer. And he does remember shooting his wife.

A nasty little erotic noir masterpiece.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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William P. McGivern’s 1953 novel The Big Heat was the source for Fritz Lang’s classic film noir of the same name. A good noir novel about an obsessed cop and with a complex sympathetic femme fatale. But Lang's movie is better.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Orrie Hitt’s 1954 novel She Got What She Wanted is fairly typical of his work, blending noir fiction and sleaze fiction. This one is very noir, as a girl gets tired of living on farm and heads to the big city to make her fortune, at any cost.

It's not just noirish, it's very good noirish fiction.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Leigh Brackett's 1944 novel No Good from a Corpse is fine hardboiled stuff. A PI takes a case for a client he hates. There's a rich assortment of crooked PIs, deranged alcoholics, insane ex-cons and as many no-good dames as you could wish for.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Lorenz Heller's superb 1957 noir novel Dead Wrong (written under the name Larry Holden) concerns a guy in danger because of a package people think he received. He never got the package and has no idea what was in it, but he could still be killed for it. Plus he could face a murder rap. There are also two potential femmes fatales to worry about.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Silly me I started this series with the second book. The fist part is The Fabulous Clip Joint. Though I didn’t feel lost in this Carny Noir.

As per his standalone novels, Brown creates an odd and tricky mystery with relatable and humorous characters.

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Charles Williams' novel Nothing in Her Way (1953) deals with a whole series of fascinating confidence tricks.

Intricate and skilful plotting, ingenious confidence tricks, characters with some depth, taut suspense, an ambiguous hero and a femme fatale - what more could you want? Highly recommended.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Time To Prey, an enjoyable 1960 entry in Frank Kane’s long-running Johnny Liddell PI thriller series. A pretty girl passes a letter to Johnny and then gets murdered.

Johnny Liddell is a Mike Hammer clone, but more cold-blooded and less ethical. But Kane is just not in Spillane's league as a writer.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Three-Way Split is a 1960 pulp noir title by Gil Brewer. It concerns a treasure hunt.

The protagonist is a genuine noir hero. He’s a good man but with weaknesses. He’s a decent guy but he’s desperate. He needs that treasure. What will a man do for that sort of money?

This is fast-moving action, perhaps more adventure noir than straightforward crime noir. Recommended.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Stephen Marlowe’s Model for Murder was published in 1955. More of a ”reluctant amateur detective” novel than a PI novel although it has plenty of hardboiled style.

Jason has just served a prison term for a crime his brother committed and he gets out to find that his brother has stolen his girl. Now Jason is in the frame for another murder.

Fine pulp crime fiction.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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Jon Nixon · @noonjinx
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Really enjoyed this one. Nearly a hundred years old but a great read. Not surprised it got banned (in Boston)

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/

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d4doome · @d4doome
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