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Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:36:55 2010 No.424195 [Reply] [Original]

Looking for recommendations for detective novels, ideally set in the first half of the 20th century.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:37:55 2010 No.424201 The Big Sleep

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:38:55 2010 No.424207 Murder on The Orient Express

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:39:55 2010 No.424211 File: 2 KB, 133x106, Hardboiled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Harboiled here, >>424201 +1

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:39:55 2010 No.424212 Not pre-1950 but should be read by everyone: Jack O'Connell's - Box Nine - Wireless - The Skin Palace - World Made Flesh

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:39:55 2010 No.424214 File: 13 KB, 304x275, jarjarclose.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] chinnnaaa town

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:41:55 2010 No.424219 Anything by Dashiell Hammet

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:42:55 2010 No.424223 John Le Carre's Call for The Dead is pretty sweet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:43:55 2010 No.424225 Double Indemnity

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:44:55 2010 No.424227 File: 46 KB, 400x582, Gravitys_rainbow_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:48:55 2010 No.424241 >>424227 Um.. you were probably thinking of Pynchon's more recent novel, Inherent Vice. Just putting that out there..

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 13 19:55:55 2010 No.424273 >>424219 >>424201 /thread