I love old noir and hardboiled films. Are there any novels which similar vibes? I enjoy the early-mid 20th century aesthetic
>>8263104
The Big Sleep, or anything by Raymond Chandler.
The Maltese Falcon.
>>8263104
The Postman Always Rings Twice
although I don't doubt you've seen the movie, id still recommend reading it.
>>8263104
You could easily Google for books.
>>8263292
You could easily go fuck yourself.
John D MacDonald's Travis Mcgee series. Good stuff.
jean claude-izzo
camilleri
mediterranean noir is best noir
>>8263104
Raymond Chandler, as someone previously mentioned, and Dashiell Hammett's novels.
The Library of America has some neat collections of their work, and other hardboiled novels as well.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Library-America-Robert-Polito/dp/1598531530/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468184132&sr=1-4&keywords=library+of+america+hard+boiled
>>8263104
James Ellroy, I'd recommend The Big Nowhere, but The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential are his most famous. The three of them and White Jazz comprise his L.A. Quartet, followed by his Underworld USA trilogy of American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's a Rover which follows that in the way of having side characters pop up repeatedly throughout all seven books in different places
Jim Thompson is also really good, he wrote the Killer Inside Me, I'd recommend that and Savage Night, a Dame to Kill For, and Pop 1280 to start
>>8263758
Also Bright Lights, Big City
Laura by Vera Caspary.
>>8263104
>aesthetic
Please fuck off to wherever you came from.
>>8263104
Brighton rock
>>8263798
Struck a nerve?
