Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!gkloker From: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Looking for Hard-boiled Detective Stories Message-ID: <1306@utai.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 16:15:32 EST Article-I.D.: utai.1306 Posted: Fri Feb 14 16:15:32 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 17:42:51 EST Reply-To: gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 18 I have recently been introduced to the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but I am soon going to have exhausted the list of their books and stories. What I would like are some pointers to other writers of hard-boiled detective fiction along the same lines as Hammett and Chandler. (Please, do not even *mention* Mickey Spillane.) Thanks. -- Geoff Loker Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 USENET: {ihnp4 decwrl utzoo uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!gkloker CSNET: gkloker@toronto ARPANET: gkloker.toronto@csnet-relay