Websites:
Book-related and General Links:
GENERAL
-African American
Mystery Page
-Black
Street Fiction
-Crime
Writers (David King)
-Dangerous
Dames: A Timeline of Some of the Major Female Eyes (Thrilling Detectives)
-Edgar
Award: Best First Novel
-Film
Noir and Pulp Fiction
-A
Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
-Gumshoe
Site
-Hardboiled
: online reference site for all things noir
-Hardboiled
Heaven
-Hard Boiled
Noir Webring
-Martin's
Film Noir Page
-Mysterious
Home Page
-MysteryNet.com:
The Online Mystery Network
-Mystery
Net Awards Page
-No
Night Sweats
-RARA-AVIS
: mailing list devoted to the discussion of hardboiled (and noir) fiction
-The
Reader's Corner presents Female Sleuths
-Thrilling
Detective Website
-Twists,
Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
-Women
of Mystery (Bookaholic)
If you liked Concrete River, try:
Campbell, Robert
-In
La-la Land We Trust (Read
Orrin's review, Grade: B)
-Alice
in La-la Land
-Sweet
La-la Land
Chandler, Raymond
-Trouble
Is My Business
-The
Big Sleep
-Farewell
My Lovely
-The
Lady in the Lake
-The
High Window
-The
Little Sister
-Playback
Connelly, Michael
-The
Black Echo
-The
Black Ice
-The
Concrete Blonde
-The
Last Coyote
-Trunk
Music
-The
Poet
Ellroy, James
-Black
Dahlia
-The
Big Nowhere
-LA Confidential
-White Jazz
-American
Tabloid
Hammett, Dashiell
-The
Maltese Falcon (one
of Orrin's Top Ten Novels) (Read
Orrin's review, Grade: A+)
MacDonald, Ross
(Lew Archer Mysteries)
-Black
Money
-The
Chill
-The
Drowning Pool
-The
Far Side of the Dollar
-The
Galton Case (Read
Orrin's review, Grade: A+)
-The
Moving Target
-The
Underground Man
-The
Wycherly Woman
-The
Zebra-Striped Hearse
-Sleeping
Beauty
Masterson, Whit
-Touch
of Evil (Read
Orrin's review, Grade: B)
Mosley, Walter
(Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
-Devil
in a Blue Dress
-A
Red Death
-White
Butterfly
-Black
Betty
-A
Little Yellow Dog