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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Hardboiled Detective Fiction: I take my brandy any way
 
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servo106
Apr 26, 2006

Pink Robot Army posted:

Has anyone read any of the 87th Precinct books by Ed McBain? I've heard them mentioned a lot of the same circles as the other big hardboiled authors, but there are so many, I've never known which were good and which were duds. Same kind of goes for the Scudder books by Lawrence Block.

As previously mentioned the McBain novels are kind of samey. The Scudder books by Block however, are excellent(along with almost anything he writes. Lucky at Cards is one I highly recommend) he does a great job of making NYC almost a character in the books.

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servo106
Apr 26, 2006

 Has anyone else read the Robert Galbraith books Rowling wrote? Not terribly noir-ish but, overall very solid detective novels with some pretty likable characters.

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