Mystery/noir/detective novels S/D

i tend to buy bulk lots of books on ebay tbh, so stuff piles up very quickly. when i decided i wanted to read ross macdonald i just bought the whole lew archer series cheap in one go. (unfortunately i found out i didn't love macdonald as much as some other people. i only read four or five of them. i'll go back to him eventually..) likewise I have Block, Westlake, McBain, Thompson, Simenon etc just lying around taking up space waiting to be read. I kinda like it. But it's a lot of pressure...

Do you like Harry Whittington? If you like Jim Thompson, I think you'll like Whittington. The Black Lizard books are good and cheap, although you should avoid Ticket to Hell, which is about a guy driving around the desert in a Porsch, being a hero.

If you haven't, you should read Joel Townsely Rogers' The Red Right Hand! Creepy backwoods stuff, good on atmosphere. Kind of like reading Shirley Jackson with a locked room plot sewn in.

And P.M. Hubbard! He's great!

And Elizabeth Sanxay Holding is good. She's basically the grandma of psychological suspense.

thanks for all of these recommendations br*ce!!! whittington is intriguing, as he;s someone i've heard mentioned here and there but i have not read. quick google suggests he wrote over 150 novels and at one point averaging 7 per year! that's a lot of writing.

also tbh driving around the desert in a porsche being a hero sounds cool.

Anyone want to recommend me some good short fiction from this genre?

(like, specific stories, I mean. things from non-mystery writers incorporating elements of the detective/crime genre into a particular piece of short fiction welcome as well.)

My first Richard Price, Lush Life! Gotta read Clockers and prob all his.
Some good stuff here:
Crime Fiction, S/D

Tana French has a new book out today, The Searcher. Every time she publishes something I rush to read it on the first day, get all the way through it, think, "Hmm, not sure if I liked that," and then immediately start looking forward to her next book.

Halfway through The Searcher and I know it’s the hinge in the story where it’s obvious lives are about to start getting ruined but I don’t know whose, yet.

Anyway Dublin Murder Squad, ranked:

Faithful Place
The Secret Place
The Likeness
The Trespasser
In the Woods
Broken Harbour

Oh I guess the other crime fiction thread is the more active one, pretend I posted there #onethread

i just read the searcher and enjoyed it more than her last couple. it's a lot more straightforward, which might not be for everyone, but it seemed like she was trying something different and it worked for me.