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.
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!