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Shane Hawk
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Recommend me your favorite hard-boiled detective novel. I read The Maltese Falcon last year and loved it.
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” — Murakami
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
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Philip Marlowe #6. The most highly developed before the series declined. The Big Sleep starts the series, but you don't need to read it to 'get' Marlowe.
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The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1: I,the Jury / My Gun is Quick / Vengeance is Mine!
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Mike Hammer is as hard boiled as you can get and his "dames" always die before book's end. As one of his "dames" said, women love men who are rough and can kill but still show a sense of kindness. I shook my head on that one. She of course died by book's end. Chandler has better writing. You can try him.
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