![]() ![]() Very loosely speaking, the old-style mystery or detective story is relaxing the new-style crime novel is upsetting. While editors John Connolly and Declan Burke prefer to use the word “mystery” rather than “crime novel,” I do think most readers associate the former with puzzles and weekend diversion and the latter with fiction addressing “the complexities of human motivation” and the social ills around us. ![]() ![]() Higgins), and nearly all the contemporary sensei of brilliant, poetic, gut-wrenching novels about violence and corruption in modern society: James Ellroy, George Pelecanos, James Lee Burke, Richard Price, Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and Daniel Woodrell, among others. MacDonald, Harry Whittington, William McGivern, Mickey Spillane, Charles Willeford), naturalists of the criminal milieu (Donald Goines, Derek Raymond, Clarence Cooper Jr., George V. Cain and Paul Cain), the pulpmeisters of Gold Medal paperbacks and their ilk (Jim Thompson, John D. ![]() Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey and Rex Stout, “Books to Die For” emphasizes the hard-boiled masters (Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. ‘Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels’ by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Atria) (Atria)Īpart from a few nods to iconic figures like A. ![]()
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