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the hardboiled era: a checklist, 1929-1958

this is the appendix to Hardboiled America by geoffrey o’brien, 1981

(found at: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/biblio/checklist.html)

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1. Red Harvest (Crime Masterworks)
by Dashiell Hammett
  
2. The Dain Curse (Crime Masterworks S.)
by Dashiell Hammett
  
3. Little Caesar
by W. R. Burnett
  
4.
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 The Hidden Hand: A Race Williams Mystery
by Carroll John Daly
  
5. The Bishop Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery)
by S. S. Van Dine
  
6.
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 The Roman Hat Mystery
by Ellery Queen
  
7. The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
  
8. Green Ice
by Raoul Whitfield
  
9. Iron Man
by W. R. Burnett
  
10.
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 The Tag Murders
by Carroll John Daly
  
11. The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
by John Dos Passos
  
12. The Door
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  
13.
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 Our government
by James M Cain
  
14. The Glass Key (Crime Masterworks)
by Dashiell Hammett
  
15. Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
  
16. Death in a Bowl
by Raoul Whitfield
  
17.
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 Danger Zone
by Raoul Whitfield
  
18.
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 Tainted Power
by Carrol John Daly
  
19.
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 The third murderer
by Carroll John Daly
  
20. Fast One
by Paul Cain
  
21. Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell
  
22. Light in August
by William Faulkner
  
23. Young Lonigan
by James T. Farrell
  
24. 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
by John Dos Passos
  
25. Stamboul Train: An Entertainment (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
  
26.
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 Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
  
27. God's Little Acre
by Erskine Caldwell
  
28.
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 Gas-House McGinty
by James T. Farrell
  
29.
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 The Case of the Velvet Claws (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
  
30.
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 The Amateur Murder
by Carroll John Daly
  
31.
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 Murder won't wait
by Carroll John Daly
  
32.
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 Dark hazard
by W. R Burnett
  
33.
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 The Kennel Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story
by S.S. VAN DINE
  
34. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
by James M. Cain
  
35. The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett
  
36. Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
  
37.
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 THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN
by James T. Farrell
  
38. Fer-De-Lance
by Rex Stout
  
39.
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 The Casino Murder Case: A Philo Vance Mystery (Scribner Crime Classics)
by S. S. Van Dine
  
40. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Midnight Classics)
by Horace McCoy
  
41. Pylon: The Corrected Text
by William Faulkner
  
42.
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 Murder in the Madhouse
by Jonathan Latimer
  
43. BUtterfield 8 (Modern Library Classics)
by John O'Hara
  
44. Journeyman (Brown Thrasher Books)
by Erskine Caldwell
  
45.
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 Judgement Day
by James T. Farrell
  
46. tortilla flat
by steinbeck
  
47.
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 Murder from the East
by Carroll John Daly
  
48. Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
  
49. The Lady in the Morgue
by Jonathan Latimer
  
50. A World I Never Made
by James T. Farrell
  
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