Last Exit to BrooklynĪlan Furst - The World at Night (the most noir-ish of his novels that I've yet read, and it seems to be a nod to Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows) Graham Greene - Ministry of Fear conversely (possibly perversely.), I don't consider his A Gun For Sale (filmed in 1942 as This Gun For Hire with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake) to be as strong a candidate for noir classification Joseph Hansen - Steps Going Down - a brilliant stand-alone thriller from the author of the 11-book series featuring gay insurance investigator David Brandstetter The Director a quick novel about a heel who manages to make his dream movie, The Man Who Got Away if made, this movie-within-the-novel would be one of the greatest noir movies ever made) Traven - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the third book in his six-book Jungle series (which relates how the roots of the Mexican Revolution sprouted in southern Mexico among the Indians of Chiapas), March to the MonteríaĬharles Willeford - Woman Chaser (a.k.a. William Faulkner - Sanctuary (not sure about the sequel, Requiem For a Nun, as I haven't read it yet from what I've read about it, I'd guess that it shouldn't be included)ī. William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley (1946 filmed the following year starring Tyrone Power) The Mask of Dimitrios filmed as The Mask of Dimitrios in 1944, starring Peter Lorre) Burnett - The Asphalt Jungle and High Sierra, although I would argue for Little Caesar's inclusion as well: the book has a very noirish dénouement that doesn't quite come through in the movie version.Įric Ambler - A Coffin for Dimitrios (a.k.a. That said, and with an honest attempt at not repeating books that have been previously nominated, here are my suggestions: Confidential, and White Jazz) as "neo- noir" not sure if anyone else will like this distinction or find it useful. Quartet of novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. I tend to classify the more explicitly violent and sexual noirish treatments, such as those of James Ellroy (particularly his L.A. Seems to me that noir overlaps with the spy thriller ( Graham Greene, yes, but also Eric Ambler and, by extension, Alan Furst, a modern writer who writes only espionage thrillers set before and during WWII) as well as the private eye and hard-boiled genres.
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