/lit/ - Literature

I am exploring the genre,leaning more towards noir.They are sometimes sociologically,psychologically insightful , socially or morally instructional and as an engineering tool to learn about how plot, intrigue and suspense work quite useful for writers.
Patricia Highsmith wrote about the nuts and bolts of suspense writing as well for those interested.
Some authors I have added to my to be read pile.
Cornell Woolrich - Rear Window
I have other novellas as well.
It inspired Hitchcock's movie.
I married a dead man
Jean Patrick Manchette- Fatale; Nada
He is a frog writer for a change of pace.
Oakley Hall - So many doors
He is probably more known for his western novel Warlock
They shoot horses, don't they - Horace McCoy
Vera Caspary- Laura
I liked the 1944 movie with the lovely Gene Tierney
Chester Himes
A black author, he wrote stuff situated in Harlem.
Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn A modern classic I had heard about.
Daniel Woodrell - Winters Bone
A contemporary one.
The movie had excellent world and building, exploration of a social mileau.Excited for this one.
Charles Willeford Pick Up; Cock Fighter
Dorothy B Hughes - In a Lonely Place
Stella Dallas - Olive Higgins Prouty
It was part of a Femme Fatale series