LISTS; CRIME FICTION FROM PROFESSOR DIENST

The perfect ending. A comprehensive list of crime fiction books from dear Professor Dienst.

ps : some suggestions were from what we did in class throughout the semester.

FEAST FER YOURSELVES, FELLOWS!

My class reading list (all books are in a part of a series, so might be worth checking out all)

1. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
2. The Real Cool Killers - Chester Himes
3. Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith (read all 7 in the series!)
4. The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
5. Fatale - Jean Patrick Manchette
6. short readings from Andrea Camilleri, Cornell Woolrich, and Massimo Carlotto
7. Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban (ergh)
8. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
9. Nairobi Heat - Mukoma Wa Ngugi
10. Brother Kemal - Jakob Arjouni

The standard list

1. Edgar Allan Poe complete works
2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series (4 novels, 56-ish short stories)
3. G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown 
4. Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas
5. Agatha Christie complete collection
6. Georges Simenon's Maigret collection (75 books)
7. Georges Simenon's other books (also called hard books)
8. Raymond Chandler's collection
9. James M. Cain
10. Jim Thompson
11. Cornell Woolrich
12. Richard Stark
13. Tony Hillerman
14. Michael Connelly
15. Sue Grafton
16. Sarah Paretsky
17. Megan Abbott
18. Stieg Larsson's Girl With Dragon Tattoo series
19. Natsuo Kirino
20. Qiu Xiaolong
21. David Peace
22. Martin Solares=Junot Diaz=Garcia Marquez

Literary Mentions

1. Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn
2. Leonardo Sciascia's "Equal Danger"
3. Jean Claude Izzo's Total Chaos
4. Michael Dibdin
5. Colin Cotterill
6. Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza
7. Andrey Kurkov
8. Ian Rankin
9. Honore Balzac

Historical crimes (me zoning into this list first)

1. Robert Van Gulik
2. "Aristotle's Crime"
3. Philip Cairn
4. Josephine Tey
5. Umberto Eco
6. Jason Goodwin
7. Oakley Hall
8. Jacqueline Winspear
9. Alan Furst
10. Philip Kerr
11. Bruce Alexander
12. Boris Akunin (I got Professor Dienst's copy!)
13. Walter Mosley
14. James Elroy
15. Didie Daeninckx

Movies! (yes yes yes)

1. Maltese Falcon
2. The Big Sleep
3. Out of the Past - Tourneur
4. High and Low - Kurosawa
5. The Long Goodbye - Altman
6. Chinatown - Polanski
7. Thief - Mann
8. City of God - Meirelles
9. Gommorrah - Garrone
10. Children of Men - Cuaron
11. The Constant Gardener - Meirelles
12. Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) 
13. Strangers on the Train
14. Momento
15. Twin Peaks series
16. maybe a movie from Chester Himes' books
17. BBC's rendition of Case Histories
18. OBVIOUSLY HOLMES. but Professor liked the Jeremy Brett version, I stick to Benedict Cumberbatch. We agreed that RDJ's Holmes ain't that good, though.

Check out the Bulwer-Lytton website for some fun too!

HAVE FUN READING/COUCH POTATO-ING, FELLOWS!