My fellow forum addicts. Beside increasing the library for my modeling, I'm thinking of buying books about mysteries. I have three names in my head, Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler, I'm a sucker for the old school of writing mysteries and I'm stuck in that period of time in Chicago, New York etc, etc. Any other authors that you recommend?
Who's your favorite mystery writer? What's your favorite mystery?


Dashiell Hammett


Mickey Spillane


Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler is my favourite with Dashiell Hammett a close second. I probably reread all of Chandler's work at least once a year. The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye are the best. It's interesting to see his progression from the early potboiler short stories to the late long novels. My favourite modern detective writer is George Pelecanos, check him out.

Cheers Pat. Much appreciated!

Nowhere near Chicago , but I have to put in a word for Dorothy L Sayers. She used to live in Witham down the road from where I'm writing this. Way better than Agatha Christie.

David

I'm not much into this genre but a few years back I read several books by Tony Hillerman. His locales are the Navajo lands of the Southwest in the present.

Is that the one where his main character is an tribal police officer? If so I remember reading one of them and it was pretty good. I don't go into the mystery genre but I remember liking this one.

Wasn't the name of her hero Lord Peter Wimsey?

Raymond Chandler for me too. My favourite book would be 'Farewell My Lovely' - also good movie version starring Dick Powell (also known as 'Murder My Sweet').

From a more modern era I enjoy Ed McBain/Evan Hunter. I was a big fan of his 87th Precinct series.

A few years ago, I decided to interleave my history reading with something else and settled on "mysteries" ... I stick mostly with the English & Scottish characters/authors ...

John