The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks and was fixed and forced. I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that i was going to grow old and die.
Ross MacDonald
Moving Target
1949
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Hopperesque
Showing posts with label Lew Archer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lew Archer. Show all posts
Wednesday 20 March 2024
It Reminded Me
Wednesday 10 January 2024
Roads I Knew
The Red Barn was a many-windowed building which stood in the centre of a blacktop lot. It's squat pentagonal structure was accentuated by neon tubing along the eaves and corners. Inside his brilliant red cage, a tall-hatted short-order cook kept several waitresses running between his counter and the cars in the lot. The waitresses wore red uniforms and little red caps which made them look like bellhops in skirts. The blended odors of gasoline fumes and frying grease changed in my nostrils to a foolish old hot-rod sorrow, nostalgia for other drive-ins along roads i knew in pre-war places before people started dying on me.
The Doomsters
Ross MacDonald
1958
Sunday 23 April 2023
Wednesday 22 March 2023
Friday 26 August 2022
Thursday 14 October 2021
Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #84
Le Trou
The Two Jakes
In Cold Blood
Devil in a Blue Dress
It Always Rains on Sundays
Harper
Kafka
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Whirlpool
Rear Window
Girl on the Run
The Deuce
Odds Against Tomorrow
Plein Soleil
Phantom Lady
Sunday 7 June 2020
All Time Noir Detectives
Phillip Marlowe Raymond Chandler
Hoke Mosely Charles Willeford
Continental Op Dashiell Hammett
Lew Archer Ross MacDonald
Dave Robicheaux James Lee Burke
Matthew Scudder Lawrence Block
Easy Rawlins Walter Mosley
Mitch Tobin Tucker Coe (Donald Westlake)
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones Chester Himes
Detective Sergeant Derek Raymond
Fritz Brown James Ellroy
Cody James Reasoner
Lew Griffin James Sallis
runners - up
Maigret Georges Simenon
Bernie Gunther Phillip Kerr
The Eye Marc Behm
Jacob Asch Arthur Lyons
John Marshall Tanner Stephen Greenleaf
Saturday 19 October 2019
Paul Newman
The Verdict
Absence of Malice
The Hustler
Road to Perdition
Harper
Cool Hand Luke
Twilight
Color of Money
Drowning Pool
Wednesday 18 September 2019
The False Face
Ross MacDonald
The Moving Target
1949
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Gallmeister -
The Drowning Pool
Friday 12 July 2019
Shortcut to Hell #8
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
Night and the City
Gloria
The Sniper
The Set Up
The Verdict
Blast of Silence
Salton Sea
Fallen Angel
Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call New Orleans
Key Largo
The Drowning Pool
The Big Combo
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Rififi
Mulholland Falls
The Unfaithful
Taxi Driver
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