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Could I nominate Wilkie Collins, Woman in White - or the Moonstone? As these were the first full length detective novels after Poe - I haven't read the Moonstone but Woman in White is wonderful....
Ohh or Miss Smilla's feeling for snow - I would absolutley love to read that again!
Yeah, it seems that by now there would be more votes. I see the voting is heavily tilting towards "The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett", but does one of those votes count? It does sound like a good book to me. I don't know much about this genre, but maybe I should try it, right? How long is "The Maltese Falcon", do you know? I will have to hunt for the book, if that is the one chosen. I loved the film version; so the novel has to be good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
If I could vote I'd be all in for crying of lot 49. But if The Maltese Falcon ends up getting chosen I'll probably participate. I'm actually just finishing up a detective fiction course at my university, so I've done a lot of work with Hammett lately.
And if you're looking for some different detective fiction to toss in for the vote, any of Chandler's Marlowe novels (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, etc.) would probably be great choices Also, Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is an amazing detective fiction novel.
Shall I order The Maltese Falcon, then?
I bought Ficciones in Februray and have not read it yet... Hope it wins...:)
Going once...
Going twice...
done voting!:)
Last couple of hours to vote!