I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and where I am I get like 6 free classic tv digital channels. One of them started showing Mike Hammer episodes from the 80s and it made me go out and buy some of the original books along with the Maltese Falcon. Any other hard boiled detective stories y’all could recommend?
I remember thinking that the genre would be great today but considering the time we live in I’m not interested. I know HBO did a reboot of Perrry Mason but considering modern HBO I haven’t watched it.
Can't go wrong with the classic Sherlock Holmes stories. And of course the 1980s TV show with Jeremy Brett which does an incredible job of adding detail and depth to those stories.
Columbo is also great and probably should appear pretty frequently on one of those classic TV channels.
I love Columbo. My grandmother loved that show so I have been watching it since childhood. I have the complete Sherlock Holmes. I do need to watch the 80s show. I thought the British one in modern times was good (granted this was before reimagining wasn't a bad thing)
Thanks!
Was it BBC?
Ok. I’ll look it up
That's the Jeremy Brett one, FYI.
If you want more Humphrey Bogart, I highly recommend Casablanca, The Big Sleep, & To Have and Have Not
The Thin Man series is also great, starring a more comedic crime solving couple
Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Micky Spillane are some of the most well known classic noir authors, but there are plenty of others
Also, there is the 'Hard Case Crime' series, which is mix of classic pulp reprints and books written in the hard-boiled style
Thanks!
For comic books, check out Criminal by Ed Brubaker.
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Red Harvest. Coen Brothers movies, the old ones before Oh Brother Where Art Thou are pretty good too. In a Lonely Place, Double Indemnity. Maybe those are more noir...
Ms. Tree comics by Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty. She's a total badass, a hero woman character done right in the pulp noir setting. Mistress/Secretary of the late Mike Hammer. Her first name is Michael too, which is a big LOL all these years later. Originally published in the early 1980s, they don't just turn her into a man to make her seem cool. She's undoubtedly Ms. Michael Tree, and she's one mean mother. I'm really hoping this property doesn't one day get ruined by SJWs because it's awesome just the way it is now.
Thanks! Will check it out.