One book on the list:The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler:Read about the other nine books on the list.
Philip Marlowe has no serious competition as the quintessential hardboiled private eye. Here he travels through a Los Angeles where nothing—or at least anything good—is what it seems.
(H/t to Sarah Weinman, who writes that the "dude needs to read more women.")
The Long Goodbye also appears on John Mullan's list of the ten best fake deaths in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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