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From: brust@starfire.UUCP (Steven K. Zoltan Brust)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Hard-boiled Detective Stories
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 13:42:38 EST
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> 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.
>

The first name that comes to mind is Robert B. Parker, who writes
of a detective named Spenser.  I think Parker is very good.