Not nearly as egregious, but I also think the 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn hardcastle should be on there.
TheUmbrellaMan1 on
Genuinely suprised Kaoru Takamura’s Lady Joker made it to the list. It’s dense, clocking in at 1200 pages, and the police procedurel is probably the finest ever written. The writing is sometimes headache inducingly detailed (particularly the beer company sections) but the cat and mouse game is so damn addictive. The ending still gives me chill. Too bad many don’t even know about this book.
olderdeafguy1 on
It would be more interesting if they changed it to 100 Best Mysteries of “Our” time. The writing styles of 200-year-old writers doesn’t have much appeal today.
The_Red_Curtain on
something by Ross MacDonald should’ve gotten in here, and I’m happy Dashiell Hammett made it (which of course he should have), but The Glass Key is even better than The Maltese Falcon imo
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Not nearly as egregious, but I also think the 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn hardcastle should be on there.
Genuinely suprised Kaoru Takamura’s Lady Joker made it to the list. It’s dense, clocking in at 1200 pages, and the police procedurel is probably the finest ever written. The writing is sometimes headache inducingly detailed (particularly the beer company sections) but the cat and mouse game is so damn addictive. The ending still gives me chill. Too bad many don’t even know about this book.
It would be more interesting if they changed it to 100 Best Mysteries of “Our” time. The writing styles of 200-year-old writers doesn’t have much appeal today.
something by Ross MacDonald should’ve gotten in here, and I’m happy Dashiell Hammett made it (which of course he should have), but The Glass Key is even better than The Maltese Falcon imo